--- product_id: 88108024 title: "Programming WCF Services" price: "EC$121" currency: XCD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://grenada.desertcart.com/products/88108024-programming-wcf-services store_origin: GD region: Grenada --- # Definitive WCF guide Advanced security & reliability Deep dive into SOA design Programming WCF Services **Price:** EC$121 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📘 Elevate your SOA game with the Rosetta Stone of WCF programming! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Programming WCF Services - **How much does it cost?** EC$121 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [grenada.desertcart.com](https://grenada.desertcart.com/products/88108024-programming-wcf-services) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Insider Expertise:** Authored by a key WCF architect, offering unparalleled design guidelines, best practices, and hidden nuances. - • **Dual Approach Learning:** Every example is demonstrated in both XML config and pure C# code for practical, real-world application. - • **From Basics to Advanced:** Seamlessly transition from foundational concepts to complex topics like asynchronous calls and transaction management. - • **Your Go-To WCF Reference:** A must-have for serious developers aiming to build robust, scalable, and secure service-oriented applications. - • **Master the WCF Revolution:** Unlock the full power of Microsoft's unified service platform with expert insights from Juval Lowy. ## Overview Programming WCF Services by Juval Lowy is the authoritative, in-depth guide to Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation, offering practical insights and advanced techniques for building service-oriented applications. Ideal for experienced developers, this book covers everything from basic concepts to complex features like security, reliability, and transaction management, with examples in both XML and C#. ## Description Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, Programming WCF Services is the authoritative introduction to Microsoft's new, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Relentlessly practical, the book delivers insight, not documentation, to teach developers what they need to know to build the next generation of SOAs. After explaining the advantages of service-orientation for application design and teaching the basics of how to develop SOAs using WCF, the book shows how you can take advantage of built-in features such as service hosting, instance management, asynchronous calls, synchronization, reliability, transaction management, disconnected queued calls and security to build best in class applications. Programming WCF Services focuses on the rationale behind particular design decisions, often shedding light on poorly-documented and little-understood aspects of SOA development. Developers and architects will learn not only the "how" of WCF programming, but also relevant design guidelines, best practices, and pitfalls. Original techniques and utilities provided by the author throughout the book go well beyond anything that can be found in conventional sources. Based on experience and insight gained while taking part in the strategic design of WCF and working with the team that implemented it, Programming WCF Services provides experienced working professionals with the definitive work on WCF. Not only will this book make you a WCF expert, it will make you a better software engineer. It's the Rosetta Stone of WCF. Review: Very Thorough Reference On WCF - WCF is one of the four major application programming interfaces introduced as part of .NET Framework 3.0. With its enormous power and flexibility, WCF has a very complex and multilayered architecture. After reading some nice overviews on WCF and even writing some simple code with out-of-box facilities provided by WCF, one may get a misleading impression of it being simple and straightforward. Once to delve into real world programming, you would be exposed to huge number of issues and complexities that in most cases may not be overcome without thorough understanding of the subject. Juval Lowy's book does an outstanding job ob systematically and thoroughly uncovering practically all aspects of WCF programming. Not only it presents a simple to understand architectural picture of WCF in general and various architectural and functional subsystems, but also abandons with practical and thorough explanations of the details of virtually all aspects of WCF. This book is not a beginner book. For starting with WCF I would recommend Michele Bustamante's book "Learning WCF". Lowy's book is a thorough reference on WCF that soon becomes your primary source of information. I would like also to note that it does not seem to be the intent of the book to reflect on all internal plumbing of WCF, which realistically needs lot of experimentation. You may find Justin Smith's book as a good supplement to Lowy's book on custom channels and behaviors. Review: Very Good WCF Book - I had only written a couple of WCF services before purchasing this book, and had survived by relying on samples found online. After purchasing this book, I no longer find myself looking for samples online. This book starts with the basics of WPF and makes them easy to understand. Then it proceeds into advanced topics such as message security, which had me puzzled until I read the chapter in this book. One of the things I really appreciate as a C# developer is the fact that almost every example in the book shows how to accomplish the given task in the .config file using the XML configuration elements, and also in pure C# code. Many examples I have seen in the MSDN or other documentation only deal with how to set up a client or server using the .config file which is not always practical. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #9,617,427 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4,368 in Microsoft Programming (Books) #14,071 in Computer Programming Languages #24,218 in Web Development & Design | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 59 Reviews | ## Images ![Programming WCF Services - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/713RYZ+u4iL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Thorough Reference On WCF *by A***N on February 29, 2008* WCF is one of the four major application programming interfaces introduced as part of .NET Framework 3.0. With its enormous power and flexibility, WCF has a very complex and multilayered architecture. After reading some nice overviews on WCF and even writing some simple code with out-of-box facilities provided by WCF, one may get a misleading impression of it being simple and straightforward. Once to delve into real world programming, you would be exposed to huge number of issues and complexities that in most cases may not be overcome without thorough understanding of the subject. Juval Lowy's book does an outstanding job ob systematically and thoroughly uncovering practically all aspects of WCF programming. Not only it presents a simple to understand architectural picture of WCF in general and various architectural and functional subsystems, but also abandons with practical and thorough explanations of the details of virtually all aspects of WCF. This book is not a beginner book. For starting with WCF I would recommend Michele Bustamante's book "Learning WCF". Lowy's book is a thorough reference on WCF that soon becomes your primary source of information. I would like also to note that it does not seem to be the intent of the book to reflect on all internal plumbing of WCF, which realistically needs lot of experimentation. You may find Justin Smith's book as a good supplement to Lowy's book on custom channels and behaviors. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good WCF Book *by J***N on October 16, 2007* I had only written a couple of WCF services before purchasing this book, and had survived by relying on samples found online. After purchasing this book, I no longer find myself looking for samples online. This book starts with the basics of WPF and makes them easy to understand. Then it proceeds into advanced topics such as message security, which had me puzzled until I read the chapter in this book. One of the things I really appreciate as a C# developer is the fact that almost every example in the book shows how to accomplish the given task in the .config file using the XML configuration elements, and also in pure C# code. Many examples I have seen in the MSDN or other documentation only deal with how to set up a client or server using the .config file which is not always practical. ### ⭐ Not Good for beginer *by J***. on January 7, 2008* This book is not for someone who knows a little WCF concept. Also it's not for the person who wants to find quick solution. After I brought this book, I was trying to understand how to build a WCF webservice, how to host it and how to call it, from the index I got the related sections, after I read them many times, I still don't know how to do it. I have to read other training material to understand it. It has no step by step instruction. It missed lot of steps. I'm dispointed with this book. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://grenada.desertcart.com/products/88108024-programming-wcf-services](https://grenada.desertcart.com/products/88108024-programming-wcf-services) --- *Product available on Desertcart Grenada* *Store origin: GD* *Last updated: 2026-08-21*