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Touched on in other questions, but not directly...which WCF book(s) would you recommend?

+8  A: 

Two books which I found quite helpful in getting started with WCF were :

  1. Learning WCF: A Hands on Guide by Michele Bustamante
  2. Programing WCF Services by Juval Lowy
Vineet
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Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 Unleashed is excellent

Stephen Newman
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The books mentioned by other guys here are just great. I used these videos from Mike Taulty and it gave me a real jump start. Hope you like it.

Perpetualcoder
Excellent videos!
jpoh
+1  A: 

The Bustamante book is quite good. I learned quite a bit by searching the net. I would recommend - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/aa740389.aspx

The MSDN Virtual Lab: Reliable and Transacted Messaging with the Windows Communication Foundation is also quite good.

Steve
+1  A: 

hi, i think you can cross reference to this earlier discussion:

wcf-for-the-totally-clueless

melaos
+3  A: 

I've been reading through Programming WCF Services, Second Edition and it does a great job of covering a lot of topics. It does get a little advanced at times, and the author put together a great helper library that he sometimes doesn't clarify which is part of the Base Class Library and which is his code. But overall if you're an intermediate programmer at the least it's a great book.

Agent_9191
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Actually Programming WCF Services looks best in Amazon. It has most user reviews and it praised so much. This is why I chose it.

Braveyard