Publisher: Althos Publishing | 80 pages | ISBN: unknown | 5.08 MB

This “Introduction to IP Telephony” book explains why companies are converting some or all of their telephone systems from dedicated telephone systems (such as PBX) to more standard IP telephony systems. These conversions allow for telephone bill cost reduction, increased ability to control telephone services, and the addition of new telephone information services. By upgrading their systems, companies can immediately reduce their telecommunication costs 40% to 70%. Continue Reading

Publisher: O’Reilly Media | 608 pages | ISBN: 0596101627 | 4.72 MB

This easy-to-use introduction to Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is ideal for developers who want to learn to build services on a company network or as part of an enterprise system. Built into Windows Vista and Longhorn, and available for Windows XP and Windows 2003, WCF provides a platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) that enables secure and reliable communication among systems within an organization or across the Internet. With WCF, software developers can focus on their business applications and not the plumbing required to connect them. Continue Reading

Publisher: O’Reilly Media | 640 pages | ISBN: 0596526997 | 2.55 MB

Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, Programming WCF Services is the authoritative introduction to Microsoft’s new, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Relentlessly practical, the book delivers insight, not documentation, to teach developers what they need to know to build the next generation of SOAs Continue Reading

Publisher: O’Reilly Media | 256 pages | ISBN: 059652014X | 11 MB

Publisher: Course Technology PTR | 216 pages | ISBN: 1592003508 | 11.86 MB