Great new WCF book by master author Juval Lowy
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Whenever I find a great technical book I really like to discuss it. It is so rare when a technical book really does a great job of what Jeff Prosise called "Telling the story of technology". I read a bit of the old version of this new WCF book, years ago, but WCF went through a lot of changes and this new version has just been released (digitally the hardcopy isn't even available yet). Programming WCF Services: Design and Build Maintainable Service-Oriented Systems - Amazon link[^] Well, I just completed the first chapter and it is fantastic introduction to WCF. WCF technology is very broad and amazing and it is also overwhelming but this author has done a great job in this book to explain the over-all architecture and solutions that WCF helps you build while still providing very specific details of how to implement the actual code of WCF. Has anyone else started reading the book? It's fantastic. Architectural Thinking The reason I like the book so much is because it provides such a great overview of all these technologies that are a bigger view of how Enterprise Applications should really be created. And thet reading is so smooth. Really great stuff. It takes a great author to be able to do that. Even the stuff directly from Microsoft doesn't pull it all together the way this book does.
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Whenever I find a great technical book I really like to discuss it. It is so rare when a technical book really does a great job of what Jeff Prosise called "Telling the story of technology". I read a bit of the old version of this new WCF book, years ago, but WCF went through a lot of changes and this new version has just been released (digitally the hardcopy isn't even available yet). Programming WCF Services: Design and Build Maintainable Service-Oriented Systems - Amazon link[^] Well, I just completed the first chapter and it is fantastic introduction to WCF. WCF technology is very broad and amazing and it is also overwhelming but this author has done a great job in this book to explain the over-all architecture and solutions that WCF helps you build while still providing very specific details of how to implement the actual code of WCF. Has anyone else started reading the book? It's fantastic. Architectural Thinking The reason I like the book so much is because it provides such a great overview of all these technologies that are a bigger view of how Enterprise Applications should really be created. And thet reading is so smooth. Really great stuff. It takes a great author to be able to do that. Even the stuff directly from Microsoft doesn't pull it all together the way this book does.
I hope it's better than his book "Programming WCF Services". I bought that when it first came out because I wanted to really master the WCF internals. It was dreadful. One of the worst programming books I've ever read, and I've read Wrox press books so that shows how bad it is.
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I hope it's better than his book "Programming WCF Services". I bought that when it first came out because I wanted to really master the WCF internals. It was dreadful. One of the worst programming books I've ever read, and I've read Wrox press books so that shows how bad it is.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
and I've read Wrox press books so that shows how bad it is
:thumbsup: :laugh: You got an actual LOL from me on that one. This new WCF book is really great though. Check out the excerpt at amazon. I think you'll like it.
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I hope it's better than his book "Programming WCF Services". I bought that when it first came out because I wanted to really master the WCF internals. It was dreadful. One of the worst programming books I've ever read, and I've read Wrox press books so that shows how bad it is.
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I hope it's better than his book "Programming WCF Services". I bought that when it first came out because I wanted to really master the WCF internals. It was dreadful. One of the worst programming books I've ever read, and I've read Wrox press books so that shows how bad it is.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I've read Wrox press books so that shows how bad it is
:thumbsup: Agree! I've only ever bought one Wrox book, 'ASP.NET 2.0', and only got through the first few chapters before getting bored with it after building a horrible looking website from the tutorial! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Whenever I find a great technical book I really like to discuss it. It is so rare when a technical book really does a great job of what Jeff Prosise called "Telling the story of technology". I read a bit of the old version of this new WCF book, years ago, but WCF went through a lot of changes and this new version has just been released (digitally the hardcopy isn't even available yet). Programming WCF Services: Design and Build Maintainable Service-Oriented Systems - Amazon link[^] Well, I just completed the first chapter and it is fantastic introduction to WCF. WCF technology is very broad and amazing and it is also overwhelming but this author has done a great job in this book to explain the over-all architecture and solutions that WCF helps you build while still providing very specific details of how to implement the actual code of WCF. Has anyone else started reading the book? It's fantastic. Architectural Thinking The reason I like the book so much is because it provides such a great overview of all these technologies that are a bigger view of how Enterprise Applications should really be created. And thet reading is so smooth. Really great stuff. It takes a great author to be able to do that. Even the stuff directly from Microsoft doesn't pull it all together the way this book does.
But the Microsoft WCF book I have from 2007 can't be outdated yet! :omg:
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I hope it's better than his book "Programming WCF Services". I bought that when it first came out because I wanted to really master the WCF internals. It was dreadful. One of the worst programming books I've ever read, and I've read Wrox press books so that shows how bad it is.
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Hear! Hear! Wrox seems to be "here's how to do exactly what Microsoft wants you to do and nothing more; stay within the nice little box and you'll be safe".
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But the Microsoft WCF book I have from 2007 can't be outdated yet! :omg:
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
can't be outdated yet!
Certainly not. I mean as long as you're still running XP, you're fine. You are still running XP, right?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
can't be outdated yet!
Certainly not. I mean as long as you're still running XP, you're fine. You are still running XP, right?
Maaaybe? :~