Part II. Programming with WCF

Part 1 of this book investigated the basics of SOA and the building blocks of service-oriented computing. It also discussed the evolution of the Microsoft offerings for providing a practical SOA platform to build services on. It focused on the new features of WCF that shipped with the .NET Framework 4.0, and it covered the unified programming model and how WCF provides the best tools to create secure, interoperable web services.

In this part, we'll discuss the technical features of WCF in detail. We'll concentrate on the programming aspects of WCF, again using the fictitious QuickReturns Ltd. stock market application as a learning tool. We'll initially go through installing the WCF components, and then we'll walk through ...

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