Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step

John Sharp

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Microsoft

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© 2007 by John Sharp

ISBN 0735623368

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About the Author

John Sharp

John Sharp is a Principal Technologist at Content Master (http://www.contentmaster.com), part of CM Group Ltd, a technical authoring company in the United Kingdom. He researches and develops technical content for training courses, seminars, and white papers. John is deeply involved with .NET Framework application development and interoperability. He has written papers and courses, built tutorials, and delivered conference presentations covering distributed systems and Web services, application migration and interoperability between Windows/.NET Framework and UNIX/Linux/Java, as well as development using the C# and J# languages. John has also authored Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, and Microsoft Visual J# Core Reference, both published by Microsoft Press.

Acknowledgments

Before I started work on this book, my wife used to think I was slightly mad. After my usual bout of late nights, gallons of hot sweet tea, and the occasional burst of interesting vocabulary (I had to initially explain that the term “WCF” is not an expletive, no matter how loudly I shout it), she has now reformed her opinion of me and knows I am quite insane. That said, I wouldn’t swap the experience of writing books for anything in my professional life–there are much harder ways to earn a living, and I thank all at Content Master for allowing me to spend a significant amount of my time doing it.

Writing a book is a team effort. However, although you don’t actually meet many people face to face, you work closely with so many people electronically that you feel they are old friends. Certainly the team of professionals I have had the pleasure of working with at Microsoft Press has been superb and I would like to thank them all, especially editor Valerie Woolley, who has guided me through the authoring process and put up with me making change after change to the titles of chapters, and Julie Hotchkiss, who worked patiently behind the scenes liasing with the editing staff and the technical reviewers. I must also make special mention of Jon Flanders, who has done sterling work reviewing each chapter, setting me straight when I did not make sense or when I was just plain wrong!

As ever, I must acknowledge the support given to me by my family: to Diana, who supplied the gallons of tea and now understands what WCF is even if she didn’t want to know before; to James, who suddenly grew taller than me while I was writing Chapter 4; and to Francesca, who thinks I am an unfashionably dressed, sad geek.

And finally, “Up the Gills!” (If they don’t get promoted soon I shall have to switch my allegiance to Forest Green Rovers.)

John Sharp