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.

For many common use cases, you can improve your XML-processing performance by taking advantage of XML-VTD's document-centric processing model.

Developers are leveraging Amazon Web Services to build scalable applications in the cloud—at a fraction of the cost of hosting similar applications on more traditionally constructed platforms.

Caching can help minimize network traffic when building service-oriented architecture applications; unfortunately, Microsoft's Caching Application Block falls short in a few areas.

Web applications are now the #1 focus of hackers. It's not surprising given the increasingly high value of data collected. Customer information, credit card numbers, health and financial records are all ripe targets for the unscrupulous. According to Gartner, an astounding 80 percent of organizations will experience an application security incident by 2010.

The demands SOA places on your QA team are enormous and neither traditional nor manual test processes can keep up with Web service development's unique challenges. Learn how IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality automates the complexity away from functional and performance testing of Web services without requiring extensive training or programming knowledge.

By reusing and sharing components in a Service Oriented Architecture, it is possible to build applications more quickly and efficiently. For SIP-based applications in a SOA, this means you can become a SIP developer without becoming a SIP expert.

Microsoft's Unified Communications initiative brings together many software and hardware components to bridge the divide between phone and computer activities. This article describes UC from a developer's perspective, including an architectural overview, list of important APIs, and the best coding opportunities for application developers.

Learn how Web services and enterprise developers can move outside the box for communications-enabled business processes—and how you can use one environment to build, test, and deploy business logic and communications logic with an even flow of project elements.

Give your applications seamless and reusable error handling and logging services with the powerful toolset from Enterprise Library 3.0.

Developers, managers and architects are well versed in the benefits of Web Services, Web application servers and the various platforms that leverage these technologies. However, the Web Services landscape as you know it today is evolving into a unified environment that will make developing, deploying and managing converged applications easier and more efficient.

When choosing a development platform for your product, it's time to look beyond the typical desktop deployment. Because of tight stack integration, the Microsoft® platform offers market opportunities—and the ability to deliver new functional capabilities and the participation in a strong partner ecosystem—you wouldn't have previously considered. Here's how you can extend the reach of your code into new markets and what you, the software developer, need to know to go there.

Web service performance depends largely on the size of the XML data being transmitted and the speed of XML processing. Fast Infoset helps greatly with those aspects.

Broaden the reach of your portlets by making them JSR 168-compliant.

IBM Rational Rose users seeking increased productivity, improved collaboration capabilities, and enhanced functionality should consider the more advanced features and functionality of the IBM Rational Software v7.0 tools. Learn why it pays to consider using or migrating existing Rational Rose projects to Rational Software Architect, Rational Software Modeler, and other tools.

If you've ever wondered whether you might be able to use a web service to cache data—or whether it would be fast enough to be useful—wonder no more.

Find out where Silverlight is headed by adding managed code in addition to JavaScript and XAML.

Find out where Silverlight is headed by adding managed code in addition to JavaScript and XAML.