Rating:  - An exhaustive study
This is THE book to get if you want to master WCF. Author's remarkable ability to jam enormous information in terse paragraphs without making it boring is astonishing, to say the least. If you have read "Programming .net Components" by Juval, you'd know what I mean.
However, here is a warning to the clueless; this book demands a keen and experienced mind. It is not for the faint of heart. For the initiated, "Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide" is probably a better choice.
Rating: - Great in-depth coverage of WCF
This is an excellent book that I would recommend getting after you already have a basic idea of what WCF is. Obviously you can start with this book, but it is drinking from the fire hose. Once you have a basic idea of what WCF is and how it works - get this book to really understand it.
Rating: - The essential text on WCF
This is reading material of the highest quality. Juval Lowy has the true master's ability to make potentially complicated material seem simple and obvious and easy to understand. He does this by combining deep knowledge of the subject matter with extremely clear writing. This is a book I read on the train in the morning, and refer to constantly while I am working on services during the day.
Throughout the book Mr. Lowy develops helper classes that plug some gaps in WCF and make the whole process of working with it easier. This is a plus, but if you don't want to use them, you don't have to.
Stable mate Michele Leroux Bustamante's book takes a more hands-on approach via the inclusion of labs, and quite frankly I think you need both.
WCF is both a deep and a wide technology, and you need a collection of top-quality resources in order to really 'get' it. "Programming WCF Services" is my favourite. Be sure to check out Appendix C, the WCF Coding Standard; he kept the best 'til last!
Rating:  - Not Good for beginer
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.
Rating:  - Esta bueno
Tiene buenas explicaciones de las cosas nuevas de WCF.
Se puede entender bien las funcionalidades y tiene ejemplos programaticos y declarativos (con xml config) para realizar casi todas las operaciones.
Conviene comparlo conjuntamente con "Learning WCF" que tiene ejemplos practicos de los casos mas comunes.
Me gusto.
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