Learning WCF

This easy-to-use introduction is for beginning to intermediate developers who want to a more conceptual understanding of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for building distributed systems and web services on a company network. Built into Windows Vista and available for Windows XP, and Windows 2000/2003, WCF provides a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that enables secure, reliable communication among systems within an organization or across the Internet. With WCF, software developers can focus on their applications rather than on the digital plumbing that connects them. Learning WCF removes the complexity of using this API by providing detailed answers, explanations and code samples to the most common questions asked by software developers. This is exactly the book they need to get a jump on this new technology. Although this book is still in progress, you can get going on this technology through our Rough Cuts version, which gives you access to the manuscript as it evolves.