March 5, 2007

What is Windows Communication Foundation?
Windows Communication Foundation ( WCF ) is Microsoft's programming model for using managed code to build unified Web services and other distributed systems ... Read more [SearchVB.com].

Book Excerpt: Windows Communication Foundation Hands-On!
Authors Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, and Nigel Watling have written one of the most comprehensive overviews about WCF. In this chapter, entitled “Data Representation,” the authors describe how data is sent from a Windows Communication Foundation client to a service, and is serialized to XML within the client.

Article: McMurty on WCF
Read an interview with WCF Hand-On! author Craig McMurty. He discusses where you can to employ WCF, Microsoft new framework for interoperability. Security and loose coupling are on the menu.

Podcast: McMurty on WCF 101
Hear the interview with WCF Hand-On! author Craig McMurty [SearchVB.com].

Podcast: Vasters Clemens on Windows Communication Foundation
Does WCF enforce "Service Oriented Architecture" ? No, says Vaster Clemens. However, used correctly, it enables architects to achieve their goals in interop, the Microsoft software ace says.

WCF Learning Guide
This handy resource provides a further collection of links to a variety of Windows Communication Foundation information [SearchVB.com.]

Securing your WCF Service
This article shows you how you can implement security on a WCF service. There are many options and extensibility points for implementing security.

Designing Service Contracts with WCF
There are many approaches to building service contracts with WCF including. In the WCF , service contracts describe the operations supported by a service.

Workflow input/output activities for WCF
Should I add a WCF server behavior that picks up a Custom SOAP Header? The question is asked.

An experience in integrating WCF and WF
It is pretty easy to call a WCF service but there are hurdles.

Instance management, security in WCF
Dr. Dobbs' .NET 3.0 Roadshow devoted much attention to Windows Communication Foundation. Here we look at how to manage and secure the message WCF . [SearchVB.com.]

Programming SOA with WCF
At Dr. Dobbs' .NET 3.0 Roadshow, Juval Lowy led several sessions on Windows Communication Foundation, Microsoft's tool for service-oriented programming. [SearchVB.com.]

Microsoft's WCF helps Dollar Thrifty at the rental counter
Car rental company Dollar Thrifty is rearchitecting a legacy application in .NET using Windows Communication Foundation without changing its code base.

Microsoft's DeVadoss on what WCF brings to SOA
John DeVadoss: WCF is a unifying framework for building secure apps. [SearchWebServices.com.]

Authors

Jack Vaughan is site editor for TheServerSide.NET. He has served as co-chair for the XML/Web ServicesONE conference. He has covered software development for 12 years including distributed object technology, XML and application servers. Previous to TheServerSide.NET, Vaughan was editor-at-large at Application Development Trends.