Good and easy books/tutorials to learn WCF latest stuff
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Programming WCF Services by Juval Lowy
IDesign.net - Juval Lowy's website
Keith Elder Demystifies WCF @ dnrTV
Miguel Castro: Extreme WCF @ dnrTV
Matt Davis
2009-08-28 01:06:10
+1 for the Lowy book
Steve
2009-08-28 01:55:53
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The best book for beginner to intermediate level has to be:
Michele Leroux Bustamante, Learning WCF
For more intermediate to advanced topics, Juval Lowy's Programming WCF Services is definitely THE book to check out.
As for online tutorial - I don't really know many good ones. Lots of people blog about WCF, including Michele Leroux Bustamante.
Check out some of those links here for tutorials on WCF:
Marc
marc_s
2009-08-28 07:15:45
+1 Excellent book, not too large, you can quickly go through the relevant tutorials/chapters as necessary.
Chris O
2010-05-12 13:26:16
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First I want to point out a link that provides good background on WCF: http://en.csharp-online.net/WCF_Essentials. The link did not show me how to use WCF in my own code, but the background information is good.
The tutorial I could work through is Microsoft's site. I'm very much a beginner in WCF and following this tutorial I ended up with client and server (service provider) console applications that worked.
The one bit I did different was adding a service reference to the client program instead of using SvcUtil.exe. To do that I had to run the server app outside of the IDE and enter the url (http://localhost:8000/ServiceModelSamples/Service) for the Visual Studio to locate the service and generate what it needed.
The tutorial is at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms734712.aspx
Some of the other topics listed on part 6 of the tutorial are:
How to: Create a Windows Communication Foundation Client
How to: Create a Duplex Contract
How to: Access Services with a Duplex Contract
Building Windows Communication Foundation Clients
Getting Started Tutorial
Basic WCF Programming
Getting Started Sample
Self-Host
mcdon
2010-01-19 23:58:50