<p>Part of Microsoft's radical WinFX API is the Indigo foundation, more formally known as the Windows Communication Foundation, or WCF. <i>Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation</i> is a complete guide to WCF from the service-oriented architecture (SOA) perspective and shows you why WCF is important to web service development and architecture.</p>
<p>The book covers the unified programming model, reliable messaging, security, the peer-to-peer programming model, and more. Youll also learn how to move your current DCOM and .NET remoting applications to WCF, and how to integrate those applications with new WCF-based applications. Youll want to get ahold of a copy because it:</p>
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<li>Contains a comprehensive WCF programming model </li>
<li>Explains how queue management and reliable messaging work in WCF </li>
<li>Discusses implementing transaction support in WCF </li>
<li>Shows how to make WCF services interoperable with other SOA offerings </li>
<li>Thoroughly covers WCF security topics and concerns</li>
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