Building SOA applications on the Microsoft platform with hands-on guide is updated for VS2010 Master WCF and LINQ to Entities concept by solving practical examples and apply them to real-world tasks first book and the only one to combine WCF and LINQ to Entities in the real world multi-tier WCF-service Ideal for beginners who want to build scalable , powerful, easy-to-guard Rich WCF service with code examples, clear explanations, interesting examples, and practical suggestions that actually hand-book for developers C + + and C # In Detail WCF is Microsoft's model for building services, while LINQ to Entities is Microsoft's ORM to access the underlying data storage. This book is the quickest and easiest way to learn WCF and LINQ to Entities in Visual Studio 2010. Through this book you will learn what goes on behind the scenes to the WCF, and dive into the basic techniques, but the most useful for LINQ to Entities. You will develop three real-world multi-tier WCF service from start to finish, with LINQ to Entities that are used in the data access layer from the service. Various clients including the application console window, WCF Test Client, Windows Forms applications and WPF applications will be made to test the WCF service. Master WCF and LINQ to Entities in multi-tier WCF service by completing the practical examples and apply them to real-world tasks What you will learn from this book Create, host, and taking your first WCF service in just a few minutes and debugging various hosting Explore options for building WCF services real-world multi-tier WCF service from start to understand each layer of WCF services and apply them to real work Add exception handling to Understanding WCF service concepts and basic and advanced features of LINQ and LINQ to Entities LINQ to Entities Use the WCF service data access layer Control updates to the database along with WCF and LINQ to Entities Add distributed transaction support for your services WCF WCF Service Test from the console program, VS2010 built-in WCF Test Client, a Windows Forms application, WPF and clients tests Approach This book is a step-by-step tutorials to guide you through the learning WCF and LINQ to Entities. You will be guided to create five WCF and LINQ solution from scratch, the three are real-world multi-tier WCF service solution, so you will not only read, but also have coding through the book, to gain practical experience WCF and LINQ to Entities. This book focuses on the essence of using WCF and LINQ to Entities, rather than provide a reference for every single possibility. Who is this book written for This book is for C # and C + + developers who want to start with WCF and LINQ to Entities, and want a book that is practical and rich with examples from the beginning.