Book Review: Professional WCF 4

September 11, 2012 · 1 min read

My Investigation of WCF internals have set the right stage to revisit Professional WCF 4 by Pablo Cibraro, Kurt Claeys, Fabio Cozzolino and Johann Grabner.

In this book, the authors dive deep into all aspects of the WCF API in a reading targeted towards intermediate and advanced developers.

Book quality so far as presentation, code completeness, content clarity and organization was superb. The authors have taken a hands-on approach to thoroughly covering the WCF 4.0 API with three chapters totaling 100+ pages completely dedicated to business cases with downloadable source code readily available.

Chapter 1 outlines SOA best-practice considerations. Next three chapters take a top-down approach to the WCF API covering service and data contracts, bindings, clients, instancing and Workflow Services followed by another carefully-thought three chapters covering the security options available via the WCF API.

In conclusion, Professional WCF 4.0 provides a thorough coverage of the WCF API and is a recommended read for anybody looking to reinforce their understanding of the various features available in the WCF framework.

Many thanks to the Wiley/Wrox User Group Program for their support of our West Palm Beach Developers’ Group.

All the best,

--Sam

This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Sam Abraham

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