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

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

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 2

From the three books i started reading after other devs' recomendations i liked:

Windows® Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step

The best about this book is that it helps you understand with a very simple and effective way and it has a lot of examples and all needed instructions to get you started fast..

Answer 3

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