Skip to Content
Real World .NET 4, C#, and Silverlight®: Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs
book

Real World .NET 4, C#, and Silverlight®: Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs

by Bill Evjen, Dominick Baier, György Balássy, Gill Cleeren, David Giard, Alex Golesh, Kevin Grossnicklaus, Caleb Jenkins, Jeffrey Juday, Vishwas Lele, Jeremy Likness, Scott Millett, Christian Nagel, Christian Weyer, Daron Yöndem
November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
17h 57m
English
Wrox
Content preview from Real World .NET 4, C#, and Silverlight®: Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs

9

Pragmatic Services Communication with WCF

by Christian Weyer

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) has been around for quite a few years. Its first incarnation showed up with .NET 3.0 in 2006. But still I meet a lot of people out there in the wilderness of software projects that do not know about it, let alone use and embrace it. Whenever you need to think about designing and implementing distributed applications in .NET, WCF is one of the major choices at hand — whether you have colleagues who hate it, or friends who love it.

This chapter presents some practical and pragmatic approaches and implementations to service-oriented communication based on WCF. This chapter goes beyond the prototypical introduction, and beyond common sense you can read in other books or publications. The facts and opinions presented here have been gathered in countless real-world client projects since the first beta versions of Indigo, as WCF was called once upon a time.

images Keep in mind that this chapter is neither a beginner's introduction to WCF, nor a fully embracing, “everything WCF” reference — but rather something in between, actually.

images You may read a few ideas and approaches in this chapter that surely go beyond common opinions and contradict statements in other publications about service orientation ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Professional C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5.1

Professional C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5.1

Christian Nagel, Jay Glynn, Morgan Skinner
Professional C# 4 and .NET 4

Professional C# 4 and .NET 4

Christian Nagel, Bill Evjen, Jay Glynn, Karli Watson, Morgan Skinner
C# 9.0 Pocket Reference

C# 9.0 Pocket Reference

Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781118021965Purchase bookDownloads