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October 20, 2009	Editor: Craig Pelkie	Issue 43

From the Editor

This month, I'll show you how to get started with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services. As with many .NET features, you can get started with a working example quite quickly, if you know what to leave out. WCF is certainly wide and deep, but this month's quick start will help you get going so you can learn more about it with a working example. I also have news about a mobile .NET Provider for the IBM i and a bookshelf recommendation that may have you take a second look at how you can use Word and Excel in a .NET environment. -Craig Pelkie

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Getting Started with WCF
by Craig Pelkie
One of the major development trends, across all platforms, is development and usage of web services. Web services is understood to be a platform-neutral technique that lets applications communicate with each other across a network, using standardized techniques to issue requests and exchange data. From the beginning, the .NET Framework and Visual Studio have provided support for developing web services, along with the Microsoft-specific Remoting technology, which provides optimized communications between .NET Framework enabled devices.
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HiT Goes Mobile, New on the Bookshelf
by Craig Pelkie

HiT Software of San Jose, California, which has long been supplying ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, and .NET Providers for the IBM i and other DB2 platforms, is currently beta testing a .NET Data Provider for mobile applications. The Ritmo/i Mobile provider is specifically designed for .NET applications that need to access the IBM i database from small, portable devices. In addition to being a managed provider (native .NET application), the Ritmo Mobile provider uses 256-bit encryption and digital certificate authentication. HiT has the distinction of being one of the very few companies that creates .NET providers for the IBM i (the others being IBM, of course, and Microsoft).

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