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Rob
Rob

Reputation: 759

C# and WCF , where to learn about it?

Its been a few weeks since I started learning C#, i know my way around visual studio, know things about classes, constructors, objects, played around with WPF and now think its time to learn some networking, say making a simple server/client application.

From what I understand winsockets are outdated and currently it is better to learn WCF ?

Maybe someone know some books, articles or tutorials about WCF for beginners where it would be explained step by stem from the ground up. :) Since all I was able to find were either rather complicated materials assuming that the reader it already a master-programmer or just coded supposed to be used as copy/paste without really explaining what it does.

Thanks! :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 467

Answers (6)

Kenmeister
Kenmeister

Reputation: 504

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/wcf-screencasts.aspx

A very accessable group of tutorials, that cover the basics very well. Great place to start.

Upvotes: 1

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 6760

Here are some good beginner tutorials from MSDN

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms735119(VS.90).aspx

Upvotes: 0

wizzardz
wizzardz

Reputation: 5874

Go to MSDN my friend,If you have the patience to read the tutorials/articles in MSDN you can learn WCF very well.

Upvotes: 0

Vivian River
Vivian River

Reputation: 32390

In short, WCF is Microsoft's library of code to simplify the process of inter-machine and inter-process communication. Pre-WCF, there were a number of frameworks you could use. WCF gives them a consistent .net interface to simplify programming.

I recommend "Learning WCF", by Michele Leroux Bustamante. It's as thick as a Bible, but it has accessible material about the different facets of WCF with lots of code samples.

Upvotes: 2

Bernard
Bernard

Reputation: 7961

I learned what I needed to know from the book Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed by Craig McMurty, Marc Mercuri, Nigel Watling and Matt Winkler. It has good examples that you can use to produce your own web services and such. It requires some knowledge of C#, which you seem to already have.

Upvotes: 0

alex.b
alex.b

Reputation: 4567

I would like to reccomend Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation - i've been learning with wcf with it.

Upvotes: 0

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