Some good press for our fellow Avanauts Chris Peiris, Dennis Mulder, Amit Bahree, Shawn Cicoria,and Aftab Chopra.
I went on a book binge this week and have had my nose buried in WCF all week. There's a lot of really good stuff out there, but without a doubt, Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation by Chris Peiris is probably my favorite.
Overall, the book is just over 400 pages but the author says quite a bit in those 400 pages. The coolest part is that they go over just about every topic that the MSDN Documentation is short on. I found that a lot of things that I stumbled my way through were covered there as well.
...All in all, this book was pretty impressive. They do mostly real world stuff and while they certainly talk theory, they stick to stuff that you'll encounter in your day to day development. You can only take so much theory and I've found that the documentation on MSDN is really heavy on theory and not enough implementation. This book will bridge that gap. Scott Klein's WCF book will help quite a bit too but won't be out for another month or two.
Source: Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation
Originally published on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:41:00 GMT
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When I saw the book at Barnes and Noble this weekend, I had to pick it up and show my wife... "These guys work for Avanade" I said. She said "Cool. What's WCF?". Nice.