Creating your first WCF service

If you are just getting started with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) here's a great resource with videos that really help get you moving in the right direction.

 

The videos will make more sense if watched in the following order:

 

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/Endpoint-Screencasts-Creating-Your-First-WCF-Service/
 
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/Endpoint-Screencasts-Configuring-Services-with-Endpoints/
 
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/Endpoint-Screencasts-Hosting-WCF-Services-in-IIS/
 
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/Endpoint-Screencasts-Self-hosting-WCF-Services/

 

The videos demonstrate the following:

 

- Creating a WCF service

- Configuring a WCF service with various endpoints

- How to host a WCF service in IIS

- How to self-host a WCF service in your own applications

 

For additional information on WCF, check out the WCF Dev Center on MSDN and the .NET Endpoint team blog.