Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling introduction to Microsoft's unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. The third edition of this thoroughly practical book provides insight, not documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications. Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, this new edition is revised for the latest productivity-enhancing features for C# 4.0 and .NET 4.0.

This book is still in progress, but you can get going on this technology through our Rough Cuts edition, which lets you read the manuscript as it's being written, either online or via PDF. This fully updated edition includes:

• Extensive coverage of the .NET Services Bus: the .NET services bus is the most important, critical, needed and power feature of .NET 4.0, and it is based solely on WCF.
• Incorporating new techniques the author has developed for WCF over the past 18 months.
• Updates to WCF with .NET 4.0: These include minor improvements to the hosting and configuration abilities, discovery, and a few other small-scale features.
• Changes and features in Visual Studio 2010: These are minor changes for Visual Studio and its supporting tools.
• C# 4.0 features: There are a few handy features in the language I would like to update the book with.
• The book will also be the definitive work on the .NET Services Bus, and contains loads of cloud design patterns and helper classes, a must for every cloud developer.