Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, Programming WCF Services is the authoritative introduction to the new Microsoft, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing applications service oriented (SOA) on Windows. Endlessly practical, this book provides insight, not documentation, to teach developers what they need to know to build the next generation of SOA. After explaining the benefits of service-orientation for application design and teaching the basics of how to develop SOAs using WCF, this book shows how you can use the built-in features such as service hosting, instance management, asynchronous calls, synchronization, reliability, transaction management, disconnected queued calls and security to build best-in-class applications. Based on the experience and insight gained while taking part in the strategic design of WCF and working with teams that implement it, Programming WCF Services provides experienced working professionals with a definitive work on WCF.