Dig into Windows Communication Foundation internals€"and uncover the power of service-oriented design. This practical guide delivers in-depth insights and plenty of code samples to help you master the intricacies of developing and implementing connected applications.

Discover how to:

• Use service-oriented concepts to build a reliable messaging infrastructure
• Build support for ever-evolving messaging transports, protocols, and functionality
• Develop and listen on multiple endpoints
• Add messaging functionality with message exchange patterns, topologies, and choreographies
• Serialize, deserialize, encode, and decode Message objects
• Generate industry-standard documents with service, data, and message contracts
• Build stacks of channel factory and listener objects with binding types
• Develop channel layer constructs and manage them over their lifetime
• Create custom channels with the Windows Communication Foundation API

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