For those of you who would like to come up to speed quickly on WCF, Microsoft just created a great Webcast series featuring Michelle Leroux Bustamante. Michelle is the chief architect at IDesign, and is also a Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected System and Technical Directory for that "other company" called BEA. Michelle is also a member of the board of directors for the International Association of Software Architects (IASA).
Michelle has been involved with WCF since the early beta days, and has recently written a great book called "Learning WCF", published by O'Reilly. To me, this book, together with Juval Lowy's book call "Programming .NET 3.0 Services" are the best books that are currently available on WCF.
I am almost finished reading Michelle's book, I will provide a detailed review of the book, both on this blog and on amazon.com, but I can assure you, this book is one of the best technical books ever published!
Michelle will be presenting a series of 15 Webcasts on WCF this summer, from July through September. The first four of these events have already been presented, but you can view the replay on the event site. The full schedule of all Webcasts is available on Michelle's Web Site. All presentations are either level 100 or level 200, so it's a great way to ease into WCF.
Personally, if I was completely new to WCF, I would recommend the following approach:
- Watch Michelle's Webcasts.
- Read her book ("Learning WCF")
- Read Juval's book ("Programming .NET 3.0 Services).
An of course, in the mean time return frequently to this site, because we will be publishing some interesting WCF information ourselves! ;-)
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