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
  
• Control configuration and communications programmatically
  
• Implement message encryption, authentication, and authorization
  
• Manage identity with Windows CardSpace
  
• Begin working with Windows Workflow Foundation to create scalable and durable business services
  
• Implement service discovery and message routing
  
• Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming
  
• Integrate WCF services with ASP.NET clients and enterprise services components