In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Wcf books and tutorials can help fill your brain this June and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Programming WCF Services: Design and Build Maintainable Service-Oriented Systems (2015)
- WCF Multi-Layer Services Development with Entity Framework, 4th Edition (2014)
- Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide (2007)
- Programming WCF Services (2007)
- Pro WCF 4: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation (Expert’s Voice in .NET) (2011)
- Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus (2010)
- Pragmatic WCF (2015)
- Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core (2017)
- Professional WCF 4 (2010)
- C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework (2015)
- Professional WCF Programming: .NET Development with the WCF (2007)
- Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step (Step by Step Developer) (2010)
Programming WCF Services: Design and Build Maintainable Service-Oriented Systems (2015)
Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft’s unified platform for developing modern, service-oriented applications on Windows.
Author(s): Juval Lowy, Michael Montgomery
WCF Multi-Layer Services Development with Entity Framework, 4th Edition (2014)
Create and deploy complete solutions with WCF and Entity Framework. If you are a C#, VB.NET, or C++ developer and want to get started with WCF and Entity Framework, then this book is for you. Competence in Entity Framework will be needed to follow the examples in the book, but experience in creating WCF services using Entity Framework is not necessary. Developers and architects evaluating SOA implementation technologies for their company will find this book useful.
Author(s): Mike Liu
Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide (2007)
This easy-to-use introduction to Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is ideal for developers who want to learn to build services on a company network or as part of an enterprise system.
Author(s): Michele Leroux Bustamante
Programming WCF Services (2007)
Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, Programming WCF Services is the authoritative introduction to Microsoft’s new, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Relentlessly practical, the book delivers insight, not documentation, to teach developers what they need to know to build the next generation of SOAs.
Author(s): Juval Lowy
Pro WCF 4: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation (Expert’s Voice in .NET) (2011)
Pro WCF 4.0: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation is a complete guide to Windows Communication Foundation from the service-oriented architecture (SOA) perspective, showing you why WCF is important to service-oriented architecture and development.
Author(s): Nishith Pathak
Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus (2010)
Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft’s unified platform for developing modern service-oriented applications on Windows. Hailed as the definitive treatment of WCF, this book provides unique insight, rather than documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications that are maintainable, extensible, and reusable.
Author(s): Juval Lowy
Pragmatic WCF (2015)
Pragmatic WCF is the detail oriented, best-selling book to Microsoft’s Unified Platform for developing service-oriented applications. This book provides unique insight rather than documentation and theoretical concepts. It helps you to learn the topics live with complete demo and skills you need to develop for WCF based application that are maintainable, reusable and extensible. Best thing about this book is you really do not need to be expert in this technology to get started.
Author(s): Rahul Sahay
Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core (2017)
This essential classic title provides a comprehensive foundation in the C# programming language and the frameworks it lives in. Now in its 8th edition, you’ll find all the very latest C# 7.1 and .NET 4.7 features here, along with four brand new chapters on Microsoft’s lightweight, cross-platform framework, .NET Core, up to and including .NET Core 2.0.
Author(s): Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse
Professional WCF 4 (2010)
A guide to architecting, designing, and building distributed applications with Windows Communication Foundation. Windows Communication Foundation is the .NET technology that is used to build service-oriented applications, exchange messages in various communication scenarios, and run workflows. This guide enables developers to create state-of-the-art applications using this technology.
Author(s): Pablo Cibraro, Kurt Claeys
C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework (2015)
This new 7th edition of Pro C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Platform has been completely revised and rewritten to reflect the latest changes to the C# language specification and new advances in the .NET Framework. This comes on top of award winning coverage of core C# features, both old and new, that have made the previous editions of this book so popular.
Author(s): Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse
Professional WCF Programming: .NET Development with the WCF (2007)
Part of the new .NET 3.0 extensions to .NET 2.0, WCF provides a unified platform for building and running connected systems and will be used by almost every .NET or SQL Server developer. Targeted to experienced developers who want to build service-oriented and transactional applications on the Microsoft platform that offer reliable and secure transactional messaging. Addresses the WCF technologies as well as the next generation of configuring and deploying network-distributed services.
Author(s): Scott Klein
Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step (Step by Step Developer) (2010)
Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building connected, service-oriented applications. Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4 — one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the clear guidance and hands-on examples you need to begin creating Web services for robust Windows-based business applications. Discover how to: Build and host SOAP and REST services; Maintain service contracts and data contracts
Author(s): John Sharp
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Best WCF Books to Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Wcf books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
WCFS2019: Proceedings of the World Conference on Floating Solutions
Author(s): Chien Ming Wang, Soon Heng Lim, Zhi Yung Tay
ID: 2411597, Publisher: Springer Singapore, Year: 2020, Size: 26 Mb, Format: pdf
Programming WCF Services
Author(s): Juval Löwy, Michael Montgomery
ID: 1409204, Publisher: O'Reilly, Year: 2016, Size: 8 Mb, Format: pdf
Programming WCF Services, 4th Edition: Design and Build Maintainable Service-Oriented Systems
Author(s): Juval Lowy, Michael Montgomery
ID: 1527425, Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Year: 2015, Size: 4 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are really hot items according to Chicago Tribune, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.