Part of Microsoft's radical new WinFX API is the foundation code-named Indigo, now more formally known as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is a technology which allows web service developers to create services that communicate and interoperate with each other and other programs and applications. The text is practical and real-world oriented, offering a WCF programming model, and chapters on creating a WCF web service; hosting and consuming WCF Web Services; deploying and managing WCF services; reliable messaging and queue management, and WCF Security. As there are currently few books available on WCF, this book will be useful to a sizeable audience of intermediate to advanced-level WCF developers, who tend to be early adopters
Amit Bahree is a solution architect with Avanade and has over 14 years of experience in IT, developing and designing mission-critical systems. His background is a mixture of product development, embedded systems, and custom solutions across both public and private sectors. He has experience in a wide range of industry verticals ranging from financial services to utilities to insurance and has implemented solutions for many Fortune 100 companies. For Amit, computers are a passion first, a hobby second, and a career third, and he is glad he gets paid to do what he loves the most. He can be contacted via his blog at www.desigeek.com.