What are the best resources you've seen for learning WCF? (books, sites, etc.)

Question

Just wondering what are the most useful resources you've seen for learning about WCF?

I've created a few prototypes and understand the basics, however I'm starting a fairly high-profile project and would like to fill in as many gaps in my knowledge as possible.

Answer 1

I've always told people safari bookshelf is a great site. Saves you the money of buying books initially and you can scan what you're looking for.

Nothing worse than buying a $50 book that gets used twice and sits on your book shelf next to some CGI coding book, .NET 1.0 , and some old Oracle book

Answer 2

I'd suggest Nicholas Allen's Indigo blog.

Answer 3

From SO i found:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/805902/where-can-i-find-good-resources-on-wcf

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386801/wcf-book-recommendation

Answer 4

Books:

Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide by Michele Bustamante - very nice kick-off book with step-by-step tutorials. Michelle also has a series of webcasts published on MSDN.

Programming WCF Services by Juval Lowy - more systematic approach, for experienced web developers.

IDesign WCF Coding Standard

WCF Security Guidance from Microsoft P&P

Websites:

Getting Started Tutorial on MSDN

and offcourse TheBestProgrammersQandASiteEver :-)

Answer 5

The WCF Developer Center.

Answer 6

I really liked Inside Windows Communication Foundation. It tells you a few things that most other books don't:

1. What the design goals of WCF are
2. Different messaging and coordination patterns and what support WCF has for them
3. The organization of WCF (Relationship between bindings, channels, etc). A few other books have this, but I found this book to have the most hands-on explanation of them - which I like.

Highly recommended.