《WCF Service编程》是一本关于Windows Communication Foundation(WCF)的很好不错入门指南，WCF是微软用于开发面向服务的Windows应用程序的统一(也有人说是革命性的)平台。本书作者Juval Lowy是微软公司软件部门的传奇人物，他参与了WCF的战略设计并与该开发团队共同工作，这本颇具实践指导意义的书表达了他的深刻见解，而不只是一份技术文档。《WCF Service编程》从软件工程角度讨论了servicecontract分解、事务和错误处理、datacontract版本和整编等话题，因此你学习完本书之后，不仅会成为一位WCF专家，还会成为一名更很好的软件工程师。以本书所提供的深刻见解为武装，你将能随心设计可维护、可扩展、可重用的SOA应用程序。
目录
Foreword Preface 1. WCF Essentials What Is WCF? Services Addresses Contracts Hosting Bindings Endpoints Metadata Exchange Client-Side Programming Programmatic Versus Administrative Configuration WCF Architecture Working with Channels Reliability 2. Service Contracts Operation Overloading Contract Inheritance Service Contracts Factoring and Design Contract Queries 3. Data Contracts Serialization Data Contract Attributes Data Contract Hierarchy Data Contract Equivalence Versioning Enumerations Delegates and Data Contracts Data Sets and Tables Generics Collections 4. Instance Management Behaviors Per-Call Services Per-Session Services Singleton Service Demarcating Operations Instance Deactivation Throttling 5. Operations Request-Reply Operations One-Way Operations Callback Operations Events Streaming 6. Faults Errors and Exceptions Fault Contracts Error-Handling Extensions
7. Transactions The Recovery Challenge Transactions Transaction Propagation Transaction Protocols and Managers The Transaction Class Transactional Service Programming Explicit Transaction Programming Service State Management Instance Management and Transactions Callbacks 8. Concurrency Management Instance Management and Concurrency Service Concurrency Mode Instances and Concurrent Access Resources and Services Resource Synchronization Context Service Synchronization Context Custom Service Synchronization Context Callbacks and Client Safety Callbacks and Synchronization Context Asynchronous Calls 9. Queued Services Disconnected Services and Clients Queued Calls Transactions Instance Management Concurrency Management Delivery Failures Playback Failures Queued Versus Connected Calls Response Service HTTP Bridge 10. Security Authentication Authorization Transfer Security Identity Management Overall Policy Scenario-Driven Approach Intranet Application Internet Application Business-to-Business Application Anonymous Application No Security Scenarios Summary Declarative Security Framework Security Auditing A. Introduction to Service-Orientation B. Publish-Subscribe Service
