Tuesday, December 26, 2006

TOC of Book

In respect to lot of mails that i received about Table Of Contents(TOC) of our book , so here is the attached TOC for my book, Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation for APress Publication. The book is divided into three parts, with first being the introduction to WCF , second about programming and third on Advanced topics of WCF.


PART 1
Introducing Windows

Communication Foundation

nCHAPTER 1 Introducing Service-Oriented Architecture . . . . . . 3

nCHAPTER 2 Introducing WCF Basics . . . . . . 25

nCHAPTER 3 Exploring the WCF Programming Model . . . . . . . 51

PART 2 Programming with WCF

nCHAPTER 4 Installing and Creating WCF Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

nCHAPTER 5 Hosting and Consuming WCF Services . . . . . . . . .145

nCHAPTER 6 Managing WCF Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

PART 3 Advanced Topics in WCF

nCHAPTER 7 Implementing WCF Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .213

nCHAPTER 8 Implementing Reliable Messaging and Queue-Based

Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

nCHAPTER 9 Using Transactions in WCF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

nCHAPTER 10 Integrating with COM+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301

nCHAPTER 11 Working with Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335

nCHAPTER 12 Developing Peer-to-Peer Applications with WCF . . . . . . . . . . 371

nCHAPTER 13 Implementing SOA Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

PART 4 Appendixes

nAPPENDIX A QuickReturns Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

nAPPENDIX B History of Microsoft Web Service Implementations . . . . . . . . .431

nAPPENDIX C WCF and .NET Framework Installation Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441


Friday, December 22, 2006

Book scheduled Date on January 15

Hi all
As you all knew that, i along with my colleague is involved in writing a book on WCF for APress Publication. Some good news that i would like to share with you is Book is on the print and if every thing goes fine, is scheduled to hit the market on January 15. The book has been foreword by none other than Thom Robbins.He is presently working as a Director for .NET Platform Marketing and is associated with Microsoft for almost six years. And as many of you has asked, I will furnish the TOC by today or in this weekend.