Offline links for WCF webcasts

I am back on the blog and to all the people who are intrested in viewing the offline view of my webcasts that i delivered last week for Microsoft India, here are the link

1. Beginning on WCF
2. Securing services with WCF
3. Programming with WCF
4. Understanding endpoints with WCF
5. Implemention Service Oriented architecture by WCF

It was quite nice to get in touch with lot of passionate developers,who have some familiar and unfamilaiar questions about WCF.

Webcasts on Windows Communication Foundation

I will be delivering webcast series on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) this month. The webcasts are schedule back to back from 26th march – 30th March 2007 from 4 PM to 5 PM IST

26th - Beginning with WCF
27th - Implementing Service Oriented Architecture through WCF
28th - Understanding Endpoints with WCF
29th - Programming with WCF
30th - Securing services with WCF

All the 5 webcasts are open for registrations on Microsoft site


hope to see many of the blog readers online :)

Orcas Latest CTP

Latest CTP of Orcas delivered today and can be downloaded by clicking here



it contains a lot of cool stuff like

1. WCF/WF designer
2. ATLAS integration
3. and lots of enhanced feature for WCF like templates for authoring WCF service, Enhanced REST/Pox Model etc

and many more

SQL Server 2005 SP2 released

Microsoft has announced release of SQL Sevrer 2005 Service Pack 2. To download the Service Pack 2 version click on download
New features of Service Pack2 can be seen by clicking
here

Sample chapter uploaded

The first chapter of my book, Introducing Service Oriented Architechture is been uploaded in Apress Site as sample chapter

click on Chapter 1 to download

Got the Books

Though i was very busy in my current work schedule, and i really miss the opportunity to blog. Finally, i want to start it with sharing a good news. Last feek i got the hard copies of the book, that recently i have co-authored. It was very soothing to have a touch and feel. Though book has been published world wide last month itself, it might take few more months to hit Indian Market. The book is avalable at APress, BarnesAndNoble,Amazon and BookPool. You can get down to it through the below links

Link to Book on Apress
Link to Barnesandnoble for Purchase
Link to Amazon for Purchase
Link to Bookpool for Purchase

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Unleashed

couple of days earlier, much awaited service pack 1 of Visual Studio 2005 was released. There are somewhere around 400 issues that have been taken care in this release and all of them can be available at http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio/content/content.aspx?contentid=4324
If you want to download the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 ..click on this

Me being Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

On eve of new year, i got a great news to share. I got myself lucky to be among the elite group of an Most Valuable Professional(MVP). MVPs is the award that is given to technical community leaders from around the world who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing real world expertise with users and Microsoft. I had just thought to update my MVP profile and can be accessed through MVP Profile. My name has also been updated in Indian MVP List

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

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.

Windows SDK for Windows Vista RTM revealed

So much awaited news came.

Here are the public links, that just came online. They may take a little time to make it to your part of the world...

Web Setup...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2B1E300-F358-4523-B479-F53D234CDCCF&displaylang=en

ISO DVD Image...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7614FE22-8A64-4DFB-AA0C-DB53035F40A0&displaylang=en

.NET framework 3.0 component
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en

WCF RC 1 go live

Much awaited news... The Windows Communication Foundation's Release Candidate are now live.

you can download the .NET Framework 3.0 with the WCF bits from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=19E21845-F5E3-4387-95FF-66788825C1AF&displaylang=en

for more info, visit clemens blog

MSDN for Free download

Now, MSDN Library is free for download without any MSDN Subscription. you need to be connected to avail the benefit. It can be free download to everyone: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=373930cb-a3d7-4ea5-b421-dd6818dc7c41&DisplayLang=en