WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities

WCF is the Microsoft model for building services, whereas LINQ to Entities is the Microsoft ORM for accessing underlying data storage. Want to learn both? You would normally have to dig through huge reference tomes-so wouldn't you agree that a simple-to-follow practical tutorial on WCF and LINQ to Entities is the way to get ahead?

This book is the quickest and easiest way to learn WCF and LINQ to Entities in Visual Studio 2010. WCF and LINQ to Entities are both powerful yet complex technologies from Microsoft-but you will be surprised at how easily this book will get you get up and running with them.

Mastery of these two topics will quickly enable you to create Service-Oriented applications, and allow you to take your first steps into the world of Service Oriented Architecture without becoming overwhelmed.

What you will learn from this book:
- Create, host, and consume your first WCF service in just a few minutes
- Explore various hosting and debugging options for a WCF service
- Build a multi-tier real-world WCF service from scratch to understand every layer of a WCF service and apply it to your real work
- Add exception handling to your WCF services
- Understand the basic and advanced concepts and features of LINQ and LINQ to Entities
- Use LINQ to Entities in the data access layer of a WCF service
- Control concurrent updates to databases with WCF and LINQ to Entities
- Add distributed transaction support to your WCF services
- Test a WCF service from a console program, the VS2010 built-in WCF Test Client, a Windows Form application, and a WPF test client

This book is for C# and C++ developers who are eager to get started with WCF and LINQ to Entities, and want a book that is practical and rich with examples from the very beginning. Developers and architects evaluating SOA implementation technologies for their company will find this book particularly useful because it gets you started with Microsoft's tools for SOA and shows you how to customize our examples for your prototypes.

This book presumes basic knowledge of C# or C++. Previous experience with Visual Studio will be helpful but is not required, as detailed instructions are given throughout the book.