https://www.developerfusion.com/t/wcf/books/sort/popularity/ 2011-01-31T15:27:00.00Z http://www.developerfusion.com/book/38385/beginning-web-development-silverlight-and-aspnet-ajax-from-novice-to-professional-beginning-from-novice-to-professi/ 2008-02-25T00:00:00.00Z

Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional aims to give you the skills you need to start building web applications with Microsoft’s next–generation technology as quickly as possible. Whether you’re interested in ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, or the technologies that support them (WPF, WCF, WF, etc.), this book is the starting point that you need.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/11288/professional-silverlight-2-for-aspnet-developers-wrox-programmer-to-programmer/ 2009-02-03T00:00:00.00Z

Our overarching goal in writing this book was to give ASP.NET developers the power to quickly and easily create visually stunning Internet applications, coupled with rich interactivity to fully immerse the user in a new online experience. Silverlight gives you everything you need to do just this, and in serious style! As well as taking you through each feature that ships with Silverlight, this book will make sure you're able to debug, troubleshoot, and performance-tune your Silverligh

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/43781/pro-wcf-practical-microsoft-soa-implementation/ 2007-01-15T00:00:00.00Z

Part of Microsofts radical new WinFX API is the Indigo foundation, more formally known as the Windows Communication Foundation, or WCF. Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation is a complete guide to WCF from the SOA architecture perspective and shows you why WCF is important to web service development and architecture. The book covers the unified programming model, reliable messaging, security, the peer-to-peer programming model, and more.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/17246/pro-c-2008-and-the-net-35-platform-fourth-edition-windowsnet/ 2007-11-12T00:00:00.00Z

The first edition of this book was released at the 2001 Tech Ed conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Since that time, this text has been revised, tweaked, and enhanced to account for the changes found within each release of the .NET platform (1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and now 3.5). The last version, .NET 3.0, was more of an augmentative release, essentially providing three new APIs: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/85688/visual-basic-2010-unleashed/ 2010-05-17T00:00:00.00Z

Foreword by Beth MassiSenior Program Manager, Microsoft Visual StudioVisual Basic 2010 Unleashed is the most comprehensive, practical reference to modern object-oriented programming with Visual Basic 2010. Written by Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, a long-time leader of the global VB community, this book illuminates the core of the VB language and demonstrates its effective use in a wide variety of programming scenarios.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/80498/microsoft-silverlight-4-data-and-services-cookbook/ 2010-05-14T00:00:00.00Z

Over 85 practical recipes for creating rich, data-driven business applications in Silverlight *Design and develop rich data-driven business applications in Silverlight *Rapidly interact with and handle multiple sources of data and services within Silverlight business applications

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/81020/pro-windows-server-appfabric-beginning/ 2010-04-16T00:00:00.00Z

This book will teach all about Windows Server AppFabric (code-named “Dublin”),a set of extensions to Windows Server that allow it to function as a lightweight, application server. The combination of Windows Server and AppFabric provides an easy-to-manage platform for developing, deploying, and reliably hosting middle-tier WCF/WF services.Windows Server AppFabric fills an important vacuum left in the wake of COM and COM+’s demise as the .NET platform has risen to prominence.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/93285/applied-architecture-patterns-on-the-microsoft-platform/ 2011-01-31T15:27:00.00Z

An in-depth scenario-driven approach to architecting systems using Microsoft technologies *Provides an architectural methodology for choosing Microsoft application platform technologies to meet the requirements of your solution *Examines new technologies such as Windows Server AppFabric, StreamInsight, and Windows Azure Platform and provides examples of how they can be used in real-world solutions

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/72965/inside-windows-communication-foundation-pro-developer/ 2007-05-16T00:00:00.00Z

Dive deep into the operation of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation with this practical, hands-on book--and learn the intricacies of Windows Communication Foundation and service-oriented concepts and implementations. Fundamentally, services are not objects. Given the prevalence of the object-oriented paradigm over the past twenty years, experienced developers need to explore a new way of thinking about architecting solutions.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/82969/professional-f-10/ 2010-06-30T00:00:00.00Z

In-depth coverage of Microsoft's new programming language-F# 2010F# is a new programming language from Microsoft, a fusion of object-oriented and functional approaches, which offers a number of new features and approaches to making software easier to write. Supported for the first time with Visual Studio 2010, F# is particularly ideal for software that needs to take full advantage of multicore processors, and this comprehensive book covers all aspects of this functional language.

James Crowley