Table of Contents

Part I Introducing the Windows Communication Foundation 

Part II Introducing the Windows Workflow Foundation

Part III Security

Part IV Integration and Interoperability 

Part V Extending the Windows Communication Foundation 

Part VI Special Cases 

Part VII The Lifecycle of Windows Communication Foundation Applications 

Part VIII Guidance

Promotional Information

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) ties together previously separate Microsoft technologies (COM, COM+, MSMQ, .NET remoting, etc.) which enable disparate software systems and programs to interact with each other. This is one of the toughest tasks for enterprise developers, who have been eagerly awaiting the release of WCF since it was announced in the fall of 2003 (under the code name Indigo.) The authors work with the WCF development team to help Microsoft partner companies implement and use WCF. They are uniquely positioned to write this book. From their contact with the WCF team they have inside knowledge of the way that WCF was designed and functions. From their work with early adopters of the technology they know where the problem spots are, and what sort of information is not covered adequately by the online documentation. WCF is one of the three pillars of .NET 3.0, along with Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation, and with those two will revolutionize the way programmers develop software. Every .NET developer will need to learn about WCF, and there is no better or copmlete guide to WCF than Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed.

About the Author

Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, Nigel Watling and Matt Winkler work directly with the Windows Communication Foundation development team to tell the world about the technology.  As such, the authors have exclusive access to the very designers and developers that are producing the technology, as well as to early releases thereof.  That access provides insights into features and application of the technology that others do not have, as well as knowledge of how the technology will evolve, and familiarity with best practices that are only just being formulated by the testing teams.  More importantly, the authors devote their time to assisting enterprises and software vendors to adopt the Windows Communication Foundation, and that yields them significant insights into how others see the technology, how they wish to apply it, and the challenges they face.  The new material proposed for the second edition derives from their experiences since the first edition went to press.