MSDN Webcast: Working with Operations and Calls in Windows Communication Foundation
Learn about message-exchange patterns for dispatching calls to the service; when and where each pattern is most appropriate; how each pattern type relates to error handling, reliability, binding, and concurrency; and how to extend them.

Reliable and Transacted Messaging with the Windows Communication Foundation Virtual Lab
This lab demonstrates the WCF facilities for managing state within a service, and how you can use WCF to enable reliable, queued, and transacted messaging in your application.

MSDN Webcast: The .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Framework
Learn how Visual Studio 2008 aims to unify programming models through LINQ capabilities in Visual C# and Visual Basic, a strongly typed data access framework, and an innovative application programming interface (API) for manipulating and querying XML.

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