March 2011
Intermediate to advanced
467 pages
12h 12m
English
WCF helps you implement reliable communications over an infrastructure that might be unreliable. Application infrastructure is prone to failure. Network connectivity often breaks, services might not always be available, and messages get lost. WCF provides you with the functionality to overcome these limitations in the infrastructure.
You will learn in this chapter how to ensure reliable communication in a distributed environment where the application endpoints might be available only intermittently. Reliable messaging in WCF helps developers solve a number of challenges that have plagued them for many years. You will learn about the following in this chapter:
The need for ...