WCF Book recomendation
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Hi there, in the company where i work, we are try to get a basic library with useful subjects, so i voted by an WCF book, searching in amazon i found this: Programming WCF Services[^] Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed[^] My question is, which one would you recommend? maybe another book. Cheers.
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Hi there, in the company where i work, we are try to get a basic library with useful subjects, so i voted by an WCF book, searching in amazon i found this: Programming WCF Services[^] Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed[^] My question is, which one would you recommend? maybe another book. Cheers.
emiaj wrote:
Programming WCF Services[^]
I am reading this book almost done with about 1/2 a chapter remaining. The book is very good and the author well known. Juval Lowy explains things well in detail. He also provides his own library with lot of useful WCF functions (though I will probably not use them). The first few chapters are very good enough detail covered. You will learn to use WCF pretty well after reading these chapters. The chapter on transactions (chapter 7) is extremely long and it took me about a week to complete that chapter as it was a little boring. Though the author does a great job of explaining all the permutation and combinations when it comes to transactions in WCF. The chapter on concurrency is again pretty good. Currently I am stuck at the penultimate chapter (I finished the last chapter before) which is on queued services which I don't have much interest in but I am reading it anyway to understand what they are:). The things which I think the book is missing: some good examples and WCF internals. There was nothing which showed you how to create a custom binding for example. Also I did not find a complete running example which would have been nice to have. I scanned through Craig McMurthy's book quickly in the store it seemed good. It also covers the internals which might be a good point. Also it covers stuff such as POX services and P2P communications. At this point I cannot give a fair review as I just scanned the book randomly. For now I don't have enough will to read another WCF book for at least a month:) -- modified at 13:07 Friday 12th October, 2007 Also WCF Unleashed covers Cardspace and Federated security which are not covered in Programming WCF services book. -- modified at 14:01 Friday 12th October, 2007
Co-Author ASP.NET AJAX in Action
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emiaj wrote:
Programming WCF Services[^]
I am reading this book almost done with about 1/2 a chapter remaining. The book is very good and the author well known. Juval Lowy explains things well in detail. He also provides his own library with lot of useful WCF functions (though I will probably not use them). The first few chapters are very good enough detail covered. You will learn to use WCF pretty well after reading these chapters. The chapter on transactions (chapter 7) is extremely long and it took me about a week to complete that chapter as it was a little boring. Though the author does a great job of explaining all the permutation and combinations when it comes to transactions in WCF. The chapter on concurrency is again pretty good. Currently I am stuck at the penultimate chapter (I finished the last chapter before) which is on queued services which I don't have much interest in but I am reading it anyway to understand what they are:). The things which I think the book is missing: some good examples and WCF internals. There was nothing which showed you how to create a custom binding for example. Also I did not find a complete running example which would have been nice to have. I scanned through Craig McMurthy's book quickly in the store it seemed good. It also covers the internals which might be a good point. Also it covers stuff such as POX services and P2P communications. At this point I cannot give a fair review as I just scanned the book randomly. For now I don't have enough will to read another WCF book for at least a month:) -- modified at 13:07 Friday 12th October, 2007 Also WCF Unleashed covers Cardspace and Federated security which are not covered in Programming WCF services book. -- modified at 14:01 Friday 12th October, 2007
Co-Author ASP.NET AJAX in Action
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Hi there, in the company where i work, we are try to get a basic library with useful subjects, so i voted by an WCF book, searching in amazon i found this: Programming WCF Services[^] Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed[^] My question is, which one would you recommend? maybe another book. Cheers.