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1. Articles from Jinal Desai .NET
WCF Tutorials
2013-06-09 07:06:52 Jinal Desai
These days I am searching for good tutorials on WCF. I come to know about some
nice tutorials scattered over the net. Some are in form of blogs or articles and some
are in form of videos. So I thought why not to put them all at one place and let people
save their time for finding good tutorials on WCF.
With this intention in mind I gathered few good tutorials and put them in one article.
Hope it would help for WCF learners in learning WCF and save their time.
Blogs and Article Tutorials
MSDN
Conceptual Overview
Getting Started Tutorial
Basic WCF Programming
WCF Feature Details
Extending WCF
Guidelines and Best Practices
Administration and Diagnostics
Using the WCF Development Tools
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Samples
What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation 4.5
wcftutorial.net
Getting Started
Fundamental
WCF Architecture
WCF Hosting
WCF Binding
Metadata Exchange
Contracts
Instance Management
Instance Deactivation
Durable Service
Throttling
Operations
Events
Transfer Mode
Transaction
WCF RIA Service

2. RESTful Service
Exception in Silverlight
Custom Message Header
Introduction to WCF 4.0
Third reference from c-sharpcorner.com. Here you will find variety of articles about
WCF for the beginner, intermediate and advanced learners. You will find most basic
thing like CRUD operations in WCF and service contract in WCF to advanced
things like WCF instance management, WCF concurrency and many more.
Video Tutorials
Channel 9 – WCF Firestarter
Part 1: Keynote, Intro to SOA & WCF
Part 2: Most Common WCF Usage Configurations
Part 3: REST Programming with WCF
Part 4: WCF Made Easy, Data & RIA Services
Part 5: What’s New with WCF 4.0
Channel 9 – Other WCF Videos
Creating Your First WCF Service
Configuring WCF Services with Endpoints
Hosting WCF Services in IIS
Self-hosting WCF Services
Creating Your First WCF Client
Configuring WCF Service References
WCF Web API with Glenn Block
WCF Web API – Content Types
WCF Web APis: “There’s a URI for That”
Troubleshooting WCF Performance Part 1
Troubleshooting WCF Performance Part 2
ASP.NET WF4 / WCF and Async Calls
WCF Web HTTP (REST) Test Tool Preview
Take some REST with WCF
WCF Service Data Validation Design
Glenn Block on WCF HTTP
WCF AppFabric Caching Behavior Sample
WCF Complex Type AJAX Service Sample
WCF Extensibility
Duplex Communication with WCF in Silverlight 4
Hosting WCF and Inter-Role Communication
WCF Data Services Beyond the Basics
What’s New in WCF 4
Improving SharePoint Development with WCF Services
Introduction to WCF Data Services and OData
The New WCF Routing Service

3. Something WCF This Way Comes
WCF Deployment Strategies
Using WCF with Silverlight 3.0
What’s new in WF/WCF 4.0
Service Discovery with WCF
Connected Applications with WCF and WF
Silverlight with WCF, WCF REST, and ADO.NET Data Services
Getting started with the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2
Exposing and consuming errors from your WCF RESTful services
AJAX-Enabling your WCF Service
Calling RESTful Services in WCF
Building RESTful Services with WCF Part 1
Building RESTful Services with WCF Part 2
Windows HPC Server Development, the WCF Application Model
WCF and WF 4.0 First Look
Using the WCF to Consume Services in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
Tunneling a PUT through POST with RESTful WCF Services
Using the WCF Receive Activity in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
WCF and WF 4.0 First Look with Richard Blewett
WCF: Zen of Performance and Scale
WCF: Developing RESTful Services
WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0
Getting Started with the WCF REST Starter Kit
Essential WCF
The Total Noobs Guide to WCF My First WCF Service
Programming JSON with WCF
AppFabric WCF Data Service
Third reference for video tutorials is from Mike Taulty’s Blog. Here you will find video
tutorials on WCF with different topics like message security, auditing, authorization,
exception handling, concurrency handling, sessions, message patterns and many
more. Since, these videos are created in around 2006 they are pretty old. However,
you can find good fundamental topics in these videos which does not change that
much.