Siebel Guide Reading Help

I have been involved in development of Siebel Applications, lately i found out some downloadable copies to the guides of Siebel, I started reading from these guides and it helped me a lot and still at times when i think i need to get an idea of solution and its implimentation in Siebel, I refer to these guides, though the guides are preety different from the ones I was used to read (Microsoft MSDN and articles), it took me some time to get aquainted with the terminologies and the style of documentation...


Siebel Guide Readings
I observed reading once will not help... infact it never does in any case... the better approach, that I discovered is: read the whole thing once roughly; now coz it's so boring, you wont understand everything stated, moreover you may not want to read it again, so just try to build an index in your brain of what is where and where should you go in order to find a solution, while doing this try to understand what the author is saying in the guides not in that much detail but just a rough idea or clear idea depending on the level of detail the author has provided.


It will take a little while for you to get really familier with the jargon of the CRM world if you are new, but once you get to know this lingo, i am sure it won't be hard for you to look into any other CRM, like Microsoft Dynamics, MySAP etc.


This is the link to an index of all the guides for Siebel 7.8, but it's not likely that you read everything in it... to get a start below is the list of the guides that you may want to read in order ([1] means read first or level 1, [2] means read after reading 1, and so on)


[3]Business Process Designer Administration Guide
[4]Business Processes and Rules: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration
[1]Configuring Siebel eBusiness Applications
[5]Data Quality Administration Guide
[1]Developing and Deploying Siebel eBusiness Applications
[2]Deployment Planning Guide
[2]Developer's Reference
[4]Enterprise Integration Manager Administration Guide
[2]eScript Language Reference
[4]eService Administration Guide
[3]Overview: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration
[4]Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide
[3]Reports Administration Guide
[5]System Administration Guide
[5]System Monitoring and Diagnostics Guide for Siebel Business Applications
[1]Tools Online Help
Training Guide

The Mouse That Soars

The Logitech MX Air packs a lot of technology into a small package
by Cliff Edwards
I had to stifle a yawn last month when a Logitech International spokeswoman called to schedule a meeting so she could show off the company's latest mouse. Over the years, Logitech (LOGI) has delivered plenty of innovations to make this time-honored device more versatile. But at this late date, is there really any way to build a better mouse?
The answer became clear a week later, when I actually got my hands on Logitech's cordless, rechargeable MX Air mouse. At $150, it's their most expensive model so far, and it really does change the definition of a product most of us use every day. More like an airborne remote control than a traditional mouse, it eliminates the need to make cramped dragging motions on a flat surface next to your keyboard. Instead, you can surf the Web, play games, and control a home theater PC from up to 30 feet away. This turns out to be a more natural way to interact with many devices.
Like the controller on Nintendo's (NTDOY) Wii game system, the MX Air stuffs a lot of advances into a little package. It has motion-sensing technology from Hillcrest Labs, including a gyroscope that senses the nose of the mouse angling up and down or side to side, and an accelerometer that tracks the device's movement in any direction as you point it at the screen. This mouse always knows which way is up, so you don't have to worry about holding it perfectly level. And an onboard processor is constantly crunching motion data so it can filter out things like a slight shaking of your hand.
The Cool-Factor
In the few weeks I've spent playing with the product, I've found that some things take practice. Positioning the cursor and clicking on tiny text or icons when standing away from the screen can be tricky. But I had no trouble hitting any of the large icons on the home screen of Windows Vista or Mac OS X. And as a lefty, I was pleased to discover that the mouse works equally well in either hand. For PC users, there's additional software that lets you set different ways of moving the mouse in the air to perform tasks using Microsoft (MSFT) Office applications, Adobe (ADBE) Photoshop, iTunes, and WinDVD. In no time, I figured out how to wave the mouse like a baton to turn up the volume on an iTunes song, launch YouTube (GOOG) videos, and flip through Yahoo! (YHOO) news tabs.
There's also a cool-factor at play. Wielding the MX Air is like holding a work of art. Crafted with help from Design Partners in Ireland, it looks a bit like an elongated teardrop, with an onyx finish and silver trim on the bottom. When you move the mouse, amber lights just below the surface illuminate buttons for play/pause, volume, back, or select. Logitech also replaced the ubiquitous scroll wheel with a thumb-operated swipe pad. It lets you move a page up or down on your PC screen and emits clicking sounds that speed up as you scroll more quickly through the pages. I was a little concerned about interference when I learned that the MX Air eschews Bluetooth wireless in favor of an alternative standard that runs on 2.4 GHz radio spectrum—the same as Wi-Fi, microwave ovens, and other gizmos. But I've had no trouble so far. Logitech says that's because the mouse senses when there's interference and hops to a slightly different frequency to avoid it.
The MX Air hints at the kinds of things Logitech may be planning in the area of home electronics. Taking a page from Apple (AAPL), the company made the whole experience completely intuitive, allowing users to be up and running in a matter of minutes. Over time, I expect to see both better software support for the Mac and other products that will really be able to take advantage of gesture-based commands. Given Logitech's proven ability to surprise, we may all soon find ourselves fighting over the mouse instead of the remote.
Steve Wildstrom is on vacation.

Pakistan to Get 'World's Largest' WiMAX Network
May 25, 2006
Motorola is announcing this week that it will serve as primary supplier for an 802.16e WiMAX broadband network in Pakistan, to be operated by Wateen Telecom.

In a Motorola announcement, Tariq Malik of Wateen Telecom calls the Motorola agreement a "milestone" in its Broadband Pakistan initiative. He says Wateen's will be "the largest 802.16e WiMAX network in the world with over one million users," will give access to "a range of voice, Internet, data and value-added services" and will provide coverage to underserved areas in Pakistan.

The network will employ Motorola's MOTOwi4 WiMAX access network and subscriber units and will allow Wateen to offer residential and commercial services, including Internet access, data services, voice, VPN and public hotspots. Reports say that Wateen plans to unroll 193 WiMAX sites by the end of September 2006 and 600 by end of June 2007.

Motorola describes MOTOwi4 as "a portfolio of wireless broadband solutions and services that create, complement and complete IP networks. MOTOwi4 includes Canopy broadband fixed wireless for point-to-multi-point and point-to-point, Mesh, Broadband over Powerline, WiMAX and Point-to-Point solutions for private and public networks." This week at the WiMAX World Europe event in Vienna, Austria, Motorola unveiled and demonstrated its new carrier-class WiMAX solution.

Walkman w580i: Smooth Operator

A cheaper alternative to the iPhone: Sony Ericsson's music phone also features FM radio, a full HTML browser, and a fitness application
by Olga Kharif
I am smitten. Europeans have been raving about Sony Ericsson's Walkman music phones for several years now, but it wasn't until the past year that the first handful of the 20-plus models available overseas arrived on the U.S. market. Now, due in August, comes a sixth called the w580i, an exceptional feature-rich handset that in many ways gives the far pricier Apple (AAPL) iPhone a run for its money.
The first "slider" in the Walkman line of phones, the w580i comes with an FM radio, a two-megapixel camera, a full HTML browser for mobile Web surfing, and a fitness application. Though it suffers from the same limited built-in memory as just about every music phone but the iPhone, the w580i has a slot for Sony's Memory Stick Micro card that offers four gigabytes of storage for songs and photos.
But despite all the extras, the w580i is expected to sell for less than many less capable devices: from $50 to $100 with a two-year contract (a wireless carrier will be announced shortly), or $349 without any new service commitment. Compare that with $500 or $600 for Apple's iPhone, or roughly $100 with a two-year contract for either of the two new music phones just launched by LG: the Muziq from Sprint (S) and the new Chocolate from Verizon Wireless (VZ, VOD) (see BusinessWeek.com, 7/13/07, "The Mobile Sound of Muziq" and BusinessWeek.com, 7/20/07, "New LG Chocolate: Even Sweeter").
Objet D'Art
More than anything, it was the snazzy design that made me fall in love with the w580i. The bottom is curved, making it easy to slide the dial pad from under the main screen with a push of the thumb. And when you do slide it open, narrow strips on both sides of the handset light up with pink and green lights. Little details like these, including the splash-like icon found on all Walkman phones, made me feel I was handling an object of art, and not just a phone.
Unlike many other music players out there, this gadget isn't trying to be like—or look like—the iPod. Its round control wheel, for example, looks more like a metal-etching machine than an iPod-like sensor. That said, I had to operate the w580i's controls with a firmer touch.
The front of the device features lots of dedicated keys. One launches the music player, another takes you back one step in any screen menu, and another lets you close out applications quickly.
Direct-From-CD Recording
But the biggest selling point, as one might hope with a device that goes by the name of Walkman, was the w580i's music-playing capabilities. Even without a headset, the sound was stellar, which is not the case with most music phones. The computer software that comes with the w580i also makes it easy to load music over a USB cable from your hard drive or even directly from a CD in the optical drive.
And unlike so many other phones, this one lets you use any other application—such as Web browsing, texting, or e-mail—while you're listening to a playlist or the radio. Most other phones either run one application at a time or perhaps allow a couple of key functions while you play music.
A few words about the radio application. Sure, other phones offer radio. But in most cases, they only let you listen to Web radio stations such as Pandora. You can't listen to the live broadcast of your local hit-music station. With the w580i, you can. The radio antenna resides within the headphones that come with the phone, but you can listen to a broadcast through either the ear buds or the handset's speaker.
Fitness Freak, Dieter's Delight
Another huge feature on this device is the full HTML browser, which enables you to view any Web page as it would appear on a computer, be it a news portal or an online retailer. I loved that. With most cell phones, Web browsing is typically limited by a special browser that can only show those sites specially formatted for a mobile device, as well as carrier restrictions governing which sites are "authorized" on their networks. The freedom to roam anywhere on the Internet is a headline feature on the iPhone, and while the w580i's screen is smaller, Web pages were relatively easy to view.
I also loved the pedometer application, which records your steps and miles as you walk or run (for the most accurate results, the phone has to be placed in a special armband). The software can even count the calories you've burned after you enter your height, age, and weight. Despite all these features, the w580i offers really good battery life: nine hours of talk time and up to 20 hours of music playing.
One gripe: It took me a while to learn the controls. To get started with the phone, I had to read the manual —which has not been the case with other music phones such as the Chocolate. But once I figured out all the buttons, using the device was clear sailing.

Microsoft Takes On Salesforce

The world's biggest software company plans to directly challenge the leader in online customer-relationship management programs
As growth slowed in recent years at Microsoft's Office division, which specializes in such business productivity applications as e-mail and spreadsheet creation, the software company looked for opportunities in other areas. Customer-relationship management (CRM) software seemed an ideal candidate. The programs help sales staff track leads and fit well with the contact lists and calendar applications in Office's Outlook program.
But Microsoft (MSFT) initially stumbled in its CRM effort, attempting to build the business from scratch while at the same time trying to absorb two large acquisitions. And just as Microsoft began gaining traction in CRM, creating software that businesses used, an upstart, Salesforce.com (CRM), pioneered a new way of doing CRM, hosting the application as a service online.
A new report from market research firm Gartner (IT) lists Salesforce.com and Oracle's (ORCL) Siebel CRM as the "leaders" of the salesforce-automation business, relegating Microsoft to a "challenger" role.
So, at its worldwide partner conference July 10 in Denver, Microsoft unveiled the pricing for a new version of its CRM software that it, too, will host online, something only its partners have done up to now. The new iteration, due later this year, puts Microsoft in direct competition with Salesforce. And Microsoft, which analysts expect to post $51 billion in sales for the fiscal year that ended June 30, has come out with aggressive pricing, beating the competition by 40% or more in some cases.
The president of Microsoft's Business Division, Jeff Raikes, talked with BusinessWeek Seattle Bureau Chief Jay Greene about his goal to take momentum from Microsoft's offline CRM business and amp up the competition with Salesforce.com online. Edited excerpts of their conversation follow.
Why are these products so important for Microsoft?
We've always felt that that intersection of bringing together how people use their office tools with business process systems is a unique opportunity for us to create value. So, being in customer relationship management is extremely important. We think this will be one of the things that really show to people what we mean by the combination of software plus software-based services.
Microsoft has been somewhat late to the online CRM party. Why was that?
Well, we did put a real emphasis on being able to have a strong offering in the on-premise (packaged software) area, and that's been excellent for us. We've developed great momentum. We're over 400,000 users now, approaching 500,000. I think that was the smart way for us to come at that.
I would turn it around, though, and say if you think about what customers really want, we are not the one who's late to the party. What customers really want is that ability to have a choice in terms of the implementation. And so if we are correct in that view of the market, the ability to have a very, very strong CRM offering that can be hosted by Microsoft, hosted by our partners, or implemented on-premise by our partners is really the triple play.
Is that really what customers want? If you look at the success that Salesforce.com has had, I think you could argue that customers really want something that is simple, lightweight, and not expensive.
We've developed a lot of momentum on-premise, and they've developed some momentum online, but now we're going to really see what customers want. Simplicity of use, ease of implementation, low total cost of operation: Those are all very important things that customers want. And we have been offering that very successfully in on-premise. We now have a great offering that is both online and on-premise.
You have been very aggressive in terms of pricing. Help me understand the strategy behind that.
It's in our DNA to be the high-volume, low-cost provider of software solutions.
This is one piece of a much bigger business for Microsoft. Is this a loss leader?
No. This is a great business for us. Our Dynamics business now overall is about a billion dollars [a year]. And CRM is a very important part of it, it's growing 100% [year over year]. Because we bet on big volume, we can afford to invest broadly.
Gartner recently put out a report on this segment, and Salesforce as well as Oracle's Siebel CRM business were at the top. Microsoft is described as a "challenger." Is Gartner's analysis right?
Well, certainly I think the trajectory that we're on will position us as a leader, and it's just a matter of time.
Microsoft executives have been saying that with regard to this market for years. What's different this time around?
The key is we've got a great product, and we already have a lot of momentum with the product. The user experience from within Outlook is something that people love, and they've been gravitating towards that; the simplicity, the ease of use. But one thing I should be clear about: I'm very satisfied with the success we're having in this business. We've got a business that in a couple years has gotten up to more than 400,000 users. It's got terrific growth, and it's getting even better. Another way of saying it is there's nobody else's position in the industry that I would want.
Does this put you in any competition with your partners, who have been hosting CRM services online on top of Microsoft software?
I think there may be some partners that will want to migrate their solutions to be more specific to some customer segments. The partners who host will do the best if they decide to go ahead and focus on a given industry. So, the partners that are doing more horizontal things will probably change their strategy. We've been very clear with the partner channel about our plans so that they can make those kinds of adjustments.

Vista Series: Windows Communication Foundation
05 Jun 2006 SearchVB.com


In the first installment of this 3-part series, we covered the Windows Presentation Foundation. Now we'll tackle the Windows Communication Foundation (formerly known as "Indigo"). WCF is a unified programming model that merges existing Microsoft distributed technologies into a single service-oriented framework. This unification approach – along with support for the most important WS-* standards – means that your life as a Microsoft developer just got a little easier ...and a little broader. Browse the resources below to learn how to simplify application-to-application communication in a cross-platform world.
Don't miss the first guide in this Vista Series covering the Windows Presentation Foundation or the concluding guide on the Windows Workflow Foundation. If you'd like to submit additional resources for this series or suggest other topics for new learning guides, please send us an e-mail and let us know.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
WCF Quickstart
WCF Downloads and Samples
WCF Hands-On Labs
WCF Articles and Columns
WCF Tutorials and How-To's
WCF Webcasts and Video
WCF Reference and Documentation
WCF Forums and Blogs
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QUOTED FROM MICROSOFT.COM...
"Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code-named "Indigo") is a set of .NET technologies for building and running connected systems. It is a new breed of communications infrastructure built around the Web services architecture. Advanced Web services support in Windows Communication Foundation provides secure, reliable, and transacted messaging along with interoperability. The service-oriented programming model of Windows Communication Foundation is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and simplifies development of connected systems. Windows Communication Foundation unifies a broad array of distributed systems capabilities in a composable and extensible architecture, spanning transports, security systems, messaging patterns, encodings, network topologies, and hosting models."

WCF Quickstart
Table of Contents
FAQ: Windows Communication Foundation FAQ (windowscommunication.net)
FAQ: Windows Vista Developer FAQ (Microsoft)
FAQ: Go-Live license for WinFX Runtime Components (Microsoft)
Article: The Windows Communication Foundation: A Primer (Laurence Moroney)
Article: What is the Windows Communication Foundation? (Microsoft)
White Paper: Introducing Windows Communication Foundation (Microsoft)
Overview: Windows Communication Foundation architecture (Microsoft)
Overview: Vista: Communication infrastructure (Microsoft)
Overview: Basic Windows Communication Foundation programming (Microsoft)
Roadmap: Windows Communication Foundation (Microsoft)

WCF Downloads
Table of Contents
Download: Windows Vista, Windows SDK and WinFX beta (Microsoft)
Demo App: Newtellivision (Newtellivision.tv)
Samples: Custom Channels (Microsoft)
Samples: Interop (Microsoft)
Samples: Miscellaneous (Microsoft)
Samples: Peer Channel (P2P) (Microsoft)
Samples: REST and RSS (Microsoft)
Samples: Security (Microsoft)
Samples: Visual Studio Code Snippets (Microsoft)
Samples: WCF/Indigo code examples from DevConnections (Michele Bustamante)
Tool: Service Model Metadata Utility (Svcutil.exe)
Tool: Find Private Key (FindPrivateKey.exe)
Tool: ServiceModel Registration (ServiceModelReg.exe)
Tool: TraceViewer (SvcTraceViewer.exe)
Tool: WCF Credential Manager (IndCred)
Tool: COM+ Service Model Configuration (ComSvcConfig.exe)
Tool: Configuration Editor (SvcConfigEditor.exe)
Tool: WS-AT Configuration (wsatConfig.exe)
Download: Resources for Custom Channel Authors (Microsoft)
Project: Web Service Software Factory (gotdotnet)
Chapter 3: Programming Indigo: The programming model (David Pallmann)
Chapter 5: Programming Indigo: Contracts (David Pallmann)

WCF Hands-On Labs
Table of Contents
Microsoft: "Try out 2 new Virtual Labs that will walk you through the latest functionality of the exciting new features of Windows Communication Foundation. Windows Communication Foundation (previously codenamed "Indigo") is Microsoft's unified framework for rapidly building distributed applications. With WCF, you can build secure, reliable, transacted Web services applications that interoperate with applications built on other platforms and integrate with the applications you're building on today's .NET technologies. These labs will guide you through the fundamentals of building powerful WCF services. You don't even need to install the bits—just use the Virtual Labs to see what WCF can do for you. You get a downloadable manual and a 90-minute block of time for each module. You can sign up for additional 90-minute blocks at any time."
Lab: The fundamentals of programming the Windows Communication Foundation
Lab: Reliable and transacted messaging with the Windows Communication Foundation

WCF Articles
Table of Contents
Article: Connecting Web services with the System.ServiceModel, Part 1 (SearchVB.com)
Article: Connecting Web services with the System.ServiceModel, Part 2 (SearchVB.com)
Article: Designing service contracts with Windows Communication Foundation (SearchVB.com)
Q&A: Microsoft's DeVadoss on what WCF brings to SOA, Part 1 (SearchWebServices.com)
Q&A: Microsoft's DeVadoss on what WCF brings to SOA, Part 2 (SearchWebServices.com)
Article: What is the Windows Communication Foundation? (Microsoft)
Article: Introduction to building Windows Communication Foundation services (Microsoft)
Article: From .NET remoting to the Windows Communication Foundation (Microsoft)
Article: Making your application a Windows Vista application (Microsoft)
Article: Windows Communication Foundation Architecture overview (TheServerSide.NET)
Article: Versioning WCF service contracts (Das Blonde)
Article: Introducing Indigo: An early look (Microsoft)
Article: Introduction to building Windows Communication Foundation services (Microsoft)
Article: Best Practices: Data contract versioning (Microsoft)
Article: Service Versioning (Microsoft)
Article: WCF: Steroids for your enterprise service-oriented architecture (Part 1) (ASP Alliance)
Article: WCF: Steroids for your enterprise service-oriented architecture (Part 2) (ASP Alliance)
Article: The good, the bad, and the ugly of service-oriented architecture (ASP Alliance)
Article: Discover mighty instance management techniques for developing WCF apps (MSDN Magazine)
Article: Learn the ABCs of programming Windows Communication Foundation (MSDN Magazine)
Article: The Windows Communication Foundation: A primer (Microsoft)
Article: Windows Communication Foundation: The security model (Microsoft)
Article: Getting started with Windows Communication Foundation transactions (Philotic Tech Blog)
Article: Windows Communication Foundation: Service reliability is the key (Philotic Tech Blog)
Article: Vista development: What's out for IIS; what's in for P2P (TheServerSide.NET)
Article: Digging into channel types (Microsoft)

WCF Tutorials
Table of Contents
Tip: WCF: Microsoft's 'newest' services way (SearchWebServices.com)
Tip: Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Vista and UAC (Mark Michaelis' Weblog)
Tip: Getting out of code snippet hell (Das Blonde)
Tutorial: Connecting Web services with the System.ServiceModel (TheServerSide.NET)
Tutorial: Windows Communication Foundation and WinFX (CodeProject)
Tutorial: Developing reliable Web services using Indigo and WASP (Longhorn Corner)
Tutorial: Content-based routing Web services in .NET and J2EE (Longhorn Corner)
Tutorial: Creating a simple WCF service for use with "Atlas" (ASP.NET)
Tutorial: How to enable WCF tracing (Madhu Ponduru)
Tutorial: How to write a simple WCF service and client (Microsoft)
Tutorial: Define a Windows Communication Foundation service contract (Microsoft)
Tutorial: WCF Message Logging (Microsoft)
Tutorial: WCF Tracing (Microsoft)
Tutorial: WCF Performance Counters (Microsoft)
Tutorial: WCF Event Logging (Microsoft)
How-to: Implement a Windows Communication Foundation Service Contract (Microsoft)
How-to: Run a Basic Windows Communication Foundation Service (Microsoft)
How-to: Create a Simple Windows Communication Foundation Proxy Class (Microsoft)
How-to: Configure a Basic Windows Communication Foundation Client (Microsoft)
How-to: Use a Windows Communication Foundation Proxy (Microsoft)
How-to: Create a Request-Response Contract (Microsoft)
How-to: Create a One-Way Contract (Microsoft)
How-to: Create a Duplex Contract (Microsoft)
How-to: Select a Serializer (Microsoft)
How-to: Create a Basic Data Contract For a Class or Structure (Microsoft)
How-to: Select a Serializer (Microsoft)
How-to: Specify a Service Binding in Configuration (Microsoft)
How-to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Application (Microsoft)
How-to: Host a WCF Service in IIS (Microsoft)
How-to: Control Service Instancing (Microsoft)
How-to: Consume Services with Duplex Contracts (Microsoft)
How-to: Use the ChannelFactory (Microsoft)
How-to: Basic Security How To Topics (Microsoft)
How-to: Send SOAP Messages Reliably (Microsoft)
How-to: Configure Service Settings (Microsoft)
How-to: Use the COM+ Service Model Configuration Tool (Microsoft)
How-to: Register and Configure a WCF Service Moniker (Microsoft)
How-to: Specify Channel Credentials (Microsoft)
How-to: Use the WCF Service Moniker without Registration (Microsoft)

WCF Webcasts
Table of Contents
Audio: Michele Leroux Bustamante gets hard on Indigo (.NET Rocks!)
Audio: Michele Leroux Bustamante talks WSE, Indigo, and security (.NET Rocks!)
Audio: Mood Indigo (.NET Rocks!)
Podcast: Secure, reliable transacted messaging with WCF (Part 1) (Channel 9)
Podcast: Secure, reliable transacted messaging with WCF (Part 2) (Channel 9)
Podcast: Richard Turner & Payam Shodjai, Indigo Road Show (PodcastStudio.com)
Video: WCF interop plug-fest (Channel 9)
Video: MIX06: Windows Communication Foundation (Channel 9)
Video: Angela Mills: From UDDI to Indigo (Channel 9)
Video: Steve Millet: What is Indigo? (Channel 9)
Webcast: The Indigo programming model with Steve Swartz (TheServerSide.NET)
Webcast: Introduction to Indigo (MSDN TV)
Webcast: Build services today (MSDN TV)
Webcast: Indigo security in a nutshell (MSDN TV)
Webcast: BizTalk Server and "Indigo" (MSDN TV)
Webcast: Connecting people, programs and devices using WinFX (MSDN TV)
Webcast: Reliable messaging in Windows Communication Foundation (MSDN TV)
Webcast: Introducing system.transactions in .NET framework 2.0 (MSDN TV)
Webcast: Generic APIs in the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (MSDN TV)
Webcast: Introduction to Indigo (Microsoft)
Webcast: Programming the Windows Communication Foundation (Microsoft)
Webcast: Building secure and reliable services using Windows Communication Foundation (Microsoft)
Webcast: Building connected systems using Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation (Microsoft)

WCF Reference and Documentation
Table of Contents
Bug List: Windows Communications Foundation bugs and feedback (Microsoft)
Chart: Graphic illustrating the major layers of WCF (Microsoft)
Class Library: System.ServiceModel Namespace (Microsoft)
Schema: system.ServiceModel and dataContractSerializer (Microsoft)
Overview: Vista: Communication Infrastructure (Microsoft)
Overview: Windows Communication Foundation Security (Microsoft)
Overview: Windows Communication Foundation Queues (Microsoft)
Overview: Reliable Sessions (Microsoft)
Reference: Windows Communication Foundation conceptual overview (Microsoft)
Reference: Windows Communication Foundation Documentation (Microsoft)
Guidelines: Windows Vista Guidelines (Microsoft)
Guidelines: Top Rules for the Windows Vista User Experience (Microsoft)
Guidelines: Top Guidelines Violations (Microsoft)

WCF Forums and Blogs
Table of Contents
Where peers share know-how and experience: ITKnowledge Exchange (SearchVB.com)
Forum: Windows Communication Foundation (Microsoft)
Forum: Transactions Programming (Microsoft)
Forum: General Windows Vista Development Issues (Microsoft)
Forum: Windows Vista SDK (Microsoft)
Forum: Software Development for Windows Vista (Microsoft)
Forum: windows.developer.winfx.indigo (Microsoft)
Forum: windows.developer.winfx.announcements (Microsoft)
Forum: windows.developer.winfx.aero (Microsoft)
Forum: windows.developer.winfx.avalon (Microsoft)
Forum: windows.developer.winfx.collaboration (Microsoft)
Forum: windows.developer.winfx.fundamentals (Microsoft)
Forum: windows.developer.winfx.general (Microsoft)
Forum: windows.developer.winfx.sdk (Microsoft)
Forum: windows.developer.winfx.winfs (Microsoft)
Blog: Don Box's Spoutlet (Don Box)
Blog: Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog (Nicholas Allen)
Blog: MADHU BLOG : Windows Communication Foundation (Madhu Ponduru)
Blog: Omri Gazitt's Weblog (Omri Gazitt)
Blog: Don Smith's Blog (Don Smith)
Blog: Kenny Wolf's Thoughts of the Moment (kennyw.com)
Blog: Understand WCF (Mike Vernal)
Blog: WCF documentation and sample code (Ralph Squillace)
Blog: Julie Lerman's Blog (Julie Lerman)
Blog: Distilled (Andy Milligan)
Blog: Yasser Shohoud's Blog (Yasser Shohoud)
Blog: Shy Cohen's WebLog (Shy Cohen)
Blog: Willy-Peter Schaub (Willy-Peter Schaub)
Blog: That Indigo Girl (Michele Bustamante)
Blog: Das Blonde (Michele Bustamante)
Blog: David Boschmans' Weblog (David Boschman)
Blog: Ami Vora's WebLog (Ami Vora)
Blog: Craig McMurtry's WebLog (Craig McMurtry)
Blog: Sowmy Srinivasan's WCF Blog (Sowmy Srinivasan)