I am looking for best resources and books for the following specific programming tasks. Could you please provide them?
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• Handling relationship bewteen OOP and SOA.
• Design entities for extensibility. Extend Data contracts without affecting consumers of the service.
• Compose entities from standard elements. When possible, use standard elements to compose the complex types used by your service.
• Versioning of contracts.
• Ensure that the service can detect and manage repeated messages (idempotency).
Doesn't answer your question fully, but this microsoft link has some best practices for WCF versioning:- Guidelines and Best Practices