<DIV><p><i>Programming WCF Services</i> 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. <p> This fully updated edition includes: <ul> <li>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. <li>Incorporating new techniques the author has developed for WCF over the past 18 months. <li>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. <li>Changes and features in Visual Studio 2010: These are minor changes for Visual Studio and its supporting tools. <li>C# 4.0 features: There are a few handy features in the language I would like to update the book with. <li>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.</li></ul></div>