Part two of my series on Windows Communication Foundation has been published at Acitve Software Professional. This second part will dive into the varying types of contracts, runtime behaviors, and hosting options with WCF. Enjoy!

Windows Communication Foundation: Steroids for your Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (Part II)

Part one of my two part series on Windows Communication Foundation has been published at Acitve Software Professional. This article comes complete with a code demo that shows all of the new configuration files used to create and invoke a WCF service. Special thanks goes out to all those Microsofties that did the Indigo Road Show (Richard Turner, Ami Vora) as much of my information comes from the probing I did during that event. Also the local evangelist group that brought the Road Show to Tampa ... you guys rock (Joe Healy and Jeff Barnes). I would also like to just put a quick promo out there for David Pallmann's book titled 'Programming Indigo'. This book gave me much of the information I used to formuluate my opinions found in this article. Thank you All!

I have been looking for some more interesting content to add to SOAPitStop.com and I just came up with one. The new section I'm referring to is the 'Books' section. In here you will find the books I'm currently reading, those I have bought but not started reading yet, and those that I have recently finished reading.

Those books that I have finished reading I will do a mini-review on so if you think it might interest you buy it. For all the other books I'll put in some description on why I either bought it what I think of it so far. For your convenience I have added links to Amazon.com for any of these books. I'll be updating these probably on a monthly basis as I finish books and start new ones.

I do have some other new content you can expect to see before the end of the year. I will likely be adding some feedback capabilities on my blog so we can get 2-way communication going without having to write me an email. If you have some other thoughts for content please send them my way!