Teach yourself the essentials of using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)—a key component of the new WinFX® development environment for Windows—with this practical, hands-on tutorial.

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+

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