WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities: Build SOA applications on the Microsoft platform with this hands-on guide updated for VS2010

Mike Liu

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Paperback Jun 2010 348 pages 1st Edition

Mike Liu

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Master WCF and LINQ to Entities concepts by completing practical examples and applying them to your real-world assignments
The first and only book to combine WCF and LINQ to Entities in a multi-tier real-world WCF service
Ideal for beginners who want to build scalable, powerful, easy-to-maintain WCF services
Rich with example code, clear explanations, interesting examples, and practical advice – a truly hands-on book for C++ and C# developers

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WCF is the Microsoft model for building services, whereas LINQ to Entities is the Microsoft ORM for accessing underlying data storage. Want to learn both? You would normally have to dig through huge reference tomes—so wouldn't you agree that a simple-to-follow practical tutorial on WCF and LINQ to Entities is the way to get ahead?This book is the quickest and easiest way to learn WCF and LINQ to Entities in Visual Studio 2010. WCF and LINQ to Entities are both powerful yet complex technologies from Microsoft—but you will be surprised at how easily this book will get you get up and running with them.Mastery of these two topics will quickly enable you to create Service-Oriented applications, and allow you to take your first steps into the world of Service Oriented Architecture without becoming overwhelmed.Through this book, you will learn what's going on behind the scenes with WCF, and dive into the basic yet most useful techniques for LINQ to Entities. You will develop three real-world multi-tiered WCF services from beginning to end, with LINQ to Entities being used in the data access layer of the services. Various clients including windows console applications, the WCF Test Client, Windows Form applications and WPF applications will be created to test these WCF services. By the end of this book, you will be 100% confident that you know WCF and LINQ to Entities, not only in theory, but with sound real-world experience.

Who is this book for?

This book is for C# and C++ developers who are eager to get started with WCF and LINQ to Entities, and want a book that is practical and rich with examples from the very beginning. Developers and architects evaluating SOA implementation technologies for their company will find this book particularly useful because it gets you started with Microsoft's tools for SOA and shows you how to customize our examples for your prototypes.This book presumes basic knowledge of C# or C++. Previous experience with Visual Studio will be helpful but is not required, as detailed instructions are given throughout the book.

What you will learn

Create, host, and consume your first WCF service in just a few minutes
Explore various hosting and debugging options for a WCF service
Build a multi-tier real-world WCF service from scratch to understand every layer of a WCF service and apply it to your real work
Add exception handling to your WCF services
Understand the basic and advanced concepts and features of LINQ and LINQ to Entities
Use LINQ to Entities in the data access layer of a WCF service
Control concurrent updates to databases with WCF and LINQ to Entities
Add distributed transaction support to your WCF services
Test a WCF service from a console program, the VS2010 built-in WCF Test Client, a Windows Form application, and a WPF test client

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Danny Oct 04, 2016

good book

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Javaman Feb 09, 2011

After wasting $49.99 on Wrox's WCF 4, I purchased this book. Mike Liu and the editors at PACKT, did a great job of being Clear, Complete, and Concise. I wouldn't categorize this book to be for Experts, rather, for Beginners to Intermediates who just want to understand more on WCF 4.0 internals.Liu writes this book in a mathmatical fashion, first laying out the foundations and then building step by step. He even goes as far as to create a Service using no Visual Studio service templates for the purpose of exposing the fact that this is no magic, but rather a simple Interface and Attributed system that can be created from scratch.There are 9 chapters with 323 pages of information. The book is not one of those "Mule-Choking" monsters, as it is easy to handle. (I don't like Monster sized books). Chapters 6,7,8 and 9 expose the LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities and have really nicely laid out EF4.0 examples to allow you to model a Database Table (super easy using EF 4.0) and then expose the ORM Class via a WCF service. It's a completely new way to look at your MODEL or Business Layer support.One highly interesting thing about EF 4.0 is that of the Partial Method Support. Until now, I never really understood Partial Methods. Now I do, as you can regenerate and update your database schema and ORM mappings WITHOUT touching business logic that exists in the Partial Method implementations. This is so powerful that I am fully considering doing ALL my MODEL work in the MVVM design using EF4.0...A bit over priced in my opinion, but worth it to the professional looking to learn new stuff.

Gray Nov 22, 2011

I was under pressure to learn WCF as my work project relied on it, and because I was searching the web for a good intro about the topic, I found a code snippet from CodeProject, followed the intructions and found that the article was a breeze to learn. That article was actually the chapter 2 of this book which I found out later in the comments, and immediately went to the bookstore and purchased it. It was a great decision as I have learned a lot from it from such a short time. I have compared this book with the step-by-step I have, and although both books are great, Mike Liu's book for me have taught what I need to learn the shortest time possible. The step-by-step is full of information but you have to read the very thick book just to understand the concept, which I don't have the luxury of time to do so.Both books will sit in my work desk, but for now, Mike's book and the layering technique would be the one I'm going to base all my services with.

Duane Oct 14, 2013

This is an excellent book for WCF 4.0 and Entity Framework developers. I went through this book from front to the end and completed the exercises. By the time I reached the end of the book I had multiple versions of services that executed without errors.!The author did a great job at explaining the topics and the exercises were very well done.I recommend this book for people training in WCF development with the Entity Framework.!

TallTale1004 Jan 13, 2013

Doesn't over complicate the basics of designing a Multi-tiered WCF service.Mike Liu does a great job explaining the ideas in a manner anyone can understand.I look forward to reading more of his textbooks.

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