Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building connected, service-oriented applications.

Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4 -- one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the clear guidance and hands-on examples you need to begin creating Web services for robust Windows-based business applications.

Discover how to:

• Build and host SOAP and REST services
• Maintain service contracts and data contracts
• Control configuration and communications programmatically
• Implement message encryption, authentication, and authorization
• Manage identity with Windows CardSpace
• Begin working with Windows Workflow Foundation to create scalable and durable business services
• Implement service discovery and message routing
• Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming
• Integrate WCF services with ASP.NET clients and enterprise services components

Your Step by Step digital content includes:

• Practice exercises
• Downloadable code samples
• Fully searchable online edition of the book -- with unlimited access on the Web