Professional WCF programming : .NET development with the Windows Communication Foundation

Part of the new .NET 3.0 extensions to .NET 2.0, WCF provides a unified platform for building and running connected systems and will be used by almost every .NET or SQL Server developer.

This work is targeted to experienced developers who want to build service-oriented and transactional applications on the Microsoft platform that offer reliable and secure transactional messaging.

It addresses the WCF technologies as well as the next generation of configuring and deploying network-distributed services.

The key topics discussed include binding, contracts, clients, services, security, deployment, management, and hosting.