Most important, WCF finally provide the long-delayed promise of software development model-driven with the new software factory approach, by which one can iteratively design solutions in a modeling language and generate executables from lower-level class library. Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed is designed to be the best resource for software developers and architects working with WCF. The book guides readers toward a conceptual understanding of all the facilities WCF and provides step by step guide to applying the technology to practical problems. Introduces you to WCF and then takes you deep inside the technology Gives you nearly 100 best practices for programming with WCF Provides detailed coverage on how to version services that you will not find another place to dig using WCF together with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows CardSpace Provides detailed coverage of the data contract serializer for new high performance NET Walks you through how to do secure, reliable,. transacted messages, and how to understand the options available Introduces you to federated, claims-based security, and shows you how to incorporate SAML and WS-Trust security services token into your architecture provides the instructions step-by-step for how to customize every aspect of WCF Shows how to add your own behaviors, communication channels, message encoders, and transports Gives you the option to implement publish / subscribe solutions Walks you through how to communicate peer-to-peer with WCF As evangelists at Microsoft for WCF, Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, Nigel Watling, and Matt Winkler are uniquely positioned to write this book. Their work with enterprises and outside software vendors has given them insight into how others see the software, how they want to apply it, and the challenges they face in doing so. Preface Introduction Part I Introducing Windows Communication Foundation 2 Fundamentals 3 Data Representation 4 Sessions, Reliable Sessions, Queues, and Transactions Part II Introducing the Windows Workflow Foundation 5 The Basics of Windows Workflow Foundation 6 Use the Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Part III Security 7 Security Association 8 Windows CardSpace, Information Cards, and Identity Metasystem 9 Securing Applications with Information Cards 10 Advanced Security Part IV Integration and Interoperability 11 Legacy Integration 12 Interoperability Part V Extending the Windows Communication Foundation 13 Custom Behavior 14 Custom Channels 15 Custom Transport Part VI Special Cases 16 Publish / Subscribe System 17 Peer Communication 18 Representation State Transfer and Plain XML Services Part VII Application Lifecycle of Windows Communication Foundation 19 Manageability Version 20 Part VIII Guidance 21 Guidelines Index