Chapter 1. The Moon Is Blue

In this chapter:

The Universal Requirement 3

The Universal Concept 4

The Business Example 7

Introducing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 8

Businesses and markets appear to have an insatiable appetite for new application functionality. I have yet to hear a product manager say after a product release, "This product does everything our customers want; there is nothing we need to plan for the next release. Let's all go home." Around a release date, you are more likely to hear, "No, this release doesn't do that—we might be able to add that feature in the release after the next one." In the universe of software applications, these functional requirements occasionally align themselves so that they appear, from a distance, ...

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