Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step

Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation-one step at a time. With this practical tutorial, you get hands-on guidance for creating the Web services you need to implement robust business applications for Windows. Discover how to: * Build and host a Web service * Design service contracts and data contracts * Maintain state information and support transactions * Programmatically configure bindings and endpoints * Use load-balancing and perform content-based message routing * Implement message encryption, authentication, authorization * Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming * Implement asynchronous operations, oneway methods, and events * Create services that interoperate with ASP.NET and COM+ CD features: * Files for practice exercises * Code samples * Fully searchable eBook For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.