Good and easy books/tutorials to learn WCF latest stuff [closed]

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Good and easy books/tutorials to learn WCF latest stuff

Answer 1

Programming WCF Services by Juval Lowy

IDesign.net - Juval Lowy's website

Keith Elder Demystifies WCF @ dnrTV

Miguel Castro: Extreme WCF @ dnrTV

Answer 2

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:

• WCF Step-by-step tutorial
• MSDN Getting started tutorial
• WCF Hello World Tutorial

Marc

Answer 3

http://www.wcf-training-guide.com/

Programming WCF Services

Answer 4

Here is a good introduction to WCF :

http://dotnetgalactics.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/implement-a-contract-callback-using-a-oneway-method-in-wcf/

Answer 5

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

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