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Book Review: Professional WCF Programming by Scott Klein

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This is the second Wrox book I agreed to review. You can find the book here . Side Note : I did receive the book as a review copy from Wrox, the publisher. I have no affiliation with Barnes & Noble, beyond being a long time fan and customer. This book covered all of the bases with WCF, and makes both a good first book, as well as providing enough material for the intermediate WCF developer. The book starts with the basic concepts, building on them, adding detail for each part of the stack. Later in the book, there are several thorough chapters on how to create custom WCF components. The writing style was smooth, and easy to read. I think this is a result from Scott being the only author. I always have high expectations for sample code in books. The sample code throughout the book was great. The samples were never a trivial sample. They had meat, and the scenarios made sense. This is usually one of my biggest pet peeves with books. I expect the author to put enough effort into