A guide to architecting, designing, and building distributed applications with Windows Communication Foundation. Windows Communication Foundation is the .NET technology that is used to build service-oriented applications, exchange messages in various communication scenarios, and run workflows. This guide enables developers to create state-of-the-art applications using this technology.

Written by a team of Microsoft MVPs and WCF experts, this book explains how the pieces of WCF 4.0 build on each other to provide a comprehensive framework to support distributed enterprise applications. Experienced developers will learn both theory and practical application using the familiar Wrox approach.

.NET developers will learn to design services, create a hosting environment with Dublin, build cloud-based integrations, and much more.

Coverage Includes:

- Design Principles and Patterns
- Service Contracts and Data Contracts
- Bindings
- Clients
- Instancing
- Workflow Services
- Understanding WCF Security
- WCF Security in Action
- Federated Authentication in WCF
- Windows Azure Platform AppFabric
- Creating a SOA Case
- Creating the Communication and Integration Case
- Creating the Business Process
- Hosting