Where can I find *good* resources on WCF?

Question

I'm just starting to get to grips with WCF and have the basics up and running. However at the moment it's mostly just 'magic' to me in that Visual Studio has done everything I needed it to and I've no idea on what's going on or how to configure things like security how I want them.

I'm finding it hard to filter out overly-complex details from fundamentals, new from old, opinion from fact and there's a lot of 'noise'.

Where are the best sources of information for learning WCF?

My typical environment will be secure internet based services that need to be accessed by distributed Windows, other desktop and web apps.

Answer 1

There's a great book Programming WCF Services.

Answer 2

Programming WCF Services by Juval Löwy has lots of useful information.

Answer 3

The MSDN Getting Started Tutorial ought to be a good place to begin. (MSDN is always the first place to check for tutorials on MS technologies, though by no means the only.)

There's also a great set of video tutorials taking you from a WCF "Hello World" to fairly advanced topics on Mike Taulty's blog.

Answer 4

Michele Leroux Bustamante also has a great site accompanying her book "Learning WCF" at http://www.thatindigogirl.com.

I really learned a lot of useful information about WCF from her 15-part MSDN screencast series "WCF Top to Bottom". You can get links to all webcasts online from here:

http://www.dasblonde.net/WCFWebcastSeries.aspx

Highly recommended!

Marc