Find out the various ways you can call web services and parse responses from your iPhone applications to give your applications a huge range of data sources.

Mixing .NET and Java technologies with web services is often easy, but for many tasks web services are not the solution for Java/.NET interoperability.

The Hessian binary web service protocol is a powerful and easy-to-use alternative to RMI, XML/SOAP, and REST/JSON for remote communication. Learn how to integrate Spring and Hessian and then create Hessian components as simple Java objects.

Building WCF services declaratively in XAML lets you integrate services with workflows and provides flexibility that identical services implemented in code cannot.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 provides a robust development platform for server-side developers. Find out how web services exposed by the MS CRM SDK can be used to build line-of-business custom solutions on CRM data.

Tapping the full potential of RIA applications involves invoking remote web services. This article demonstrates how to communicate between Silverlight and Live Search using Silverlight's services infrastructure.

Reporting in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 has been significantly enhanced. Find out how to extend the built-in reporting features and create customized visually-enhanced reports using ASP.NET and Silverlight.

Innovative solutions sometimes require multiple ingredients. Find out how to mix it up with SharePoint, WCF, and Silverlight.

Discover how to write PHP web services and consume them through SOAP-AJAX calls.

Twitter is ideal for performing all kinds of useful programmatic projects. See how to create a RESTful data application around an XML database, and you will learn how to make the Twitter API work with virtual collections.

Learn how to access RESTful web services from a JavaFX application.

Client applications that share centralized information typically poll a central service to get updated information—a pull model. But by using WCF callbacks, the central service can push updated information to the clients in near-real time.

You can use Live Search on your site through the Live Search Box or by using the Windows Live Search API.

Windows Live Tools brings a set of Windows Live services right into your Visual Studio development environment.

Find out how to write plugins for Windows Live Writer, including how to get started, how to debug, and how to package the final plugin.

Windows Live ID offers a simple way for you to get Live ID authentication in both web and rich client applications, letting you tap into over 400 million Live ID users.

Ready to build a web experience your users will love? Consider Windows Live Services as the building blocks of your new site.

This revamped book covers developing with the latest release of WCF in Visual Studio 2008 on the .NET Framework 3.5, giving practical advice, numerous examples, tips and tricks, and ways to avoid the "pain points" of WCF development. Chapter 9 covers WCF Diagnostics.

While most of the complexity you encounter in synchronization efforts will be unique to your application and infrastructure, synchronization works best when it's designed to be a core feature in each data store.

Users increasingly rely on their applications to work both on site and on the go, so they can remain productive anywhere and at any time—regardless of how they connect to the network.