WCF 4.5 Multi-Layer Services Development With Entity Framework 0003-Revised Edition

Some typos and missing instruction make it hard for the beginner. With a few hours on Google and understanding the book was not perfectly written, was able to find the missing answers.The book still had some good sections, and was just here and there where items were missed. Still a good book

Moving right along with this technology. Between Mike Liu and Michelle Leroux Bustamante (hope I spelled it all right from memory), I'm getting this technology down. Really down. Mike's examples do not work on my Windows 10 platform with VS 2015. I can't even force the web project to use IIS Express as the VS "internal" web server. Of course, this isn't Mike's fault. Someone keeps changing things so damn fast that NO ONE CAN KEEP UP.

For me it was wasting of money, I didn't get any advanced features and real world example is far from real world. Don't expect any advanced features. But it's good for beginners though, if have no understanding of WCF or Entity Framework. Quite ugly on Kindle, examples are spread across several pages. It was difficult to read. Also I don't agree with the author, but it's my personal feeling.

Easy to follow with tons of information.I used this as litterature in one of my ASP.NET development courses (since the professors didn't have any tip other than 'search on google' regarding how to implement a WCF service).

The Book Does A Good Job Of Covering The Basics Of The Topic. Could Stand To Go Into More Depth, But Is A Great Start.

I was working my way through the book and tried to get access to example source code. Since I bought the book on Amazon and not directly from them, I had to go through some process to register from them to get the source code. I never was able to get to the source code. I will never buy a book from this publisher again.

Excellent walk-through to understand how all the different parts fit together, from publishing a bare hello world local service to make work a distributed database with transaction distribution.

a good step by step approach to a complex issue.the book gives a good indication how everything hangs together in WCF

This book is a good intro to WCF. The author explains, step by step, what everyone nedds to know in order to start WCF. The examples are simple but very usefull. Buy ths bokk if you nedd a good start point.

Great way to get up to speed with WCF, but there are some considerations that prospective purchasers should be aware of. The book assumes access to a full Visual Studio environment and falls a little short if you are intending to use Visual Studio Express (as I did). For example the packaged Visual Studio templates differ between the full and express Visual Studio environments and I found myself having to work out how to follow some of the examples without access to the referenced VS template, either because it was not available at all in VS Express, or was available in another project category from the one referenced in the book. That said, it encouraged me to find out how to manipulate templates in Visual Studio as I ended up having to copy them around. The referenced WCF library template was missing from the Express environmant but I was able to use the Web template to follow the book examples that referred to this template as it supported the same fundamental stuff. Just had to figure out how to configure the web.config file appropriately to include the necessary Web service elements.I found the section on security to be a little weak for me as it failed to put the security considerations surrounding web services into context with Windows security concepts in general. It was straight in with very little contextual background and for me this was a disappointment in what up until that chapter had been a pretty good experience.Also had a few issues in trying to establish the Northwind database data in an SQL Server instance to support the examples in the second half of the book but I got there in the end with a bit of research.Be prepared to have to do some work on your environment, particulary if all you have access to is the VS Express software. You will be rewarded for your efforts and will be left with some useful examples of how to do this stuff.Highly recommended with the caveats above.

This book is really awesome ! Specifically, it guides you to the gist of many things through step-by-stepapproach. That is very important, especially in cases you are amauter on a field as I am on WCF. Really, the author has done pretty good job. The book starts with the notion of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), then it continues on the standards and specifications of web services and at the end of the first chapter introduces the technology of WCF. Then on chapter 3 and 4 guides you step by step in order to build your first WCF Service and host it in many ways. On Chapter 4 and 5 implements a real world WCF service. The thing that is very useful to amateurs at this point is that the author uses layers to build his application. From architectural point of view, the layered systems are more flexible to future changes and are complied with the separation of concerns. So, having someone to explain you practically how to build a layered system is very important. Next, on chapters 6-9 introduces LINQ and LINQ to entities. Then it uses the LINQ to entities to a WCF Service. It would be major mistake, If I forgot to mention the paragraph on viewing generated SQL statements. This paragraph really surpriced me. The use of SQL profiler it leads you straight to the point and it makes you more aware of the generated SQL statements.Also, until this moment (I have finished the chapters 1-9), I have not found any mistake. I would recommend this book to everyone, who wants to have an introduction to this technology as well as to more advanced programmers.

Nice intro to a few important topics (many already outdated), you will get much more just by reading some blogs.

The idea of the book is very good, it takes you through the process of building WCF Services step by step, however it is painful because there are so many errors in the book. The example points you to look for svcutil.exe in the wrong program files - maybe because I am on a 64 bit build. I followed each of the examples word for word, but still ended up retracing my steps to try and find the reason why things were not working, many times I just gave up.I will persevere with the book because as I said at the start the idea behind it is good - I am hoping that as my knowledge grows fixing the problems will become easier.BTW I am using the Kindle version of the book.