Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation—one step at a time. With this practical tutorial, you get hands-on guidance for creating the Web services you need to implement robust business applications for Windows.

Discover how to:

• Build and host a Web service
• Design service contracts and data contracts
• Maintain state information and support transactions
• Programmatically configure bindings and endpoints
• Use load-balancing and perform content-based message routing
• Implement message encryption, authentication, authorization
• Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming
• Implement asynchronous operations, oneway methods, and events
• Create services that interoperate with ASP.NET and COM+

CD features:

• Files for practice exercises
• Code samples
• Fully searchable eBook

For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.