Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building next-generation connected applications.
Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation-one step at a time. With this practical tutorial, you get hands-on guidance for creating the Web services you need to implement robust business applications for Windows.
Discover how to:
- Build and host a Web service
- Design service contracts and data contracts
- Maintain state information and support transactions
- Programmatically configure bindings and endpoints
- Use load-balancing and perform content-based message routing
- Implement message encryption, authentication, authorization
- Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming
- Implement asynchronous operations, oneway methods, and events
- Create services that interoperate with ASP.NET and COM+
About the Author
John Sharp is a Principal Technologist at Content Master, part of CM Group Ltd, a technical authoring company in the United Kingdom. He researches and develops technical content for training courses, seminars, and white papers. John is deeply involved with .NET Framework application development and interoperability. He has written papers and courses, built tutorials, and delivered conference presentations covering distributed systems and Web services, application migration and interoperability between Windows/.NET Framework and UNIX/Linux/Java, as well as development using the C# and J# languages. John has also authored Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, and Microsoft Visual J# Core Reference, both published by Microsoft Press. |
