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

Key Features

• 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

Book Description

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

Who this book is 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.