Table of Contents Scratch Work

I haven't forgotten about the goal to put together a table of contents for all of these articles. The part I find hardest about this process is taking the articles that talk about five or six topics and figuring out a single place where they should go. I want to avoid duplicating and cross-linking articles at this level. Here's an example of the products I'm coming up with along the way. I've populated this list with just the articles tagged as involving "messages". That's about 10% of the total number of articles. It takes a long time to get a working organization and design.

1. Messaging
   1. Messages
      1. Application messages
         1. Reducing
            Memory Usage with Large Messages
         2. Mixing
            Message Contract Attributes
         3. Splitting
            Up XML Text Nodes
         4. Correlating
            Message Identifiers
         5. You
            Must Understand This
         6. This
            message cannot support the operation because it has been copied
         7. Maximum
            Size of a SOAP Message
      2. Formats
         1. Versioning
            for Addresses, Envelopes, and Messages
         2. Manual
            Addressing
         3. Mixed
            Mode Addressing
         4. The
            Mixed Mode Addressing Picture
      3. Serialization
         1. Using
            XML Serialization with WCF
      4. Encodings
         1. Text
         2. Binary
         3. Extensibility
      5. Extensibility
         1. Get
            the Message
         2. Introducing
            MessageState
   2. Message protocols
      1. Reliability
      2. Security
         1. Securing
            Custom Headers, Version 1
         2. Securing
            Custom Headers, Version 2
      3. Extensibility
   3. Network transports
      1. HTTP
         1. Making
            One-Way HTTP Requests, Part 2
         2. Making
            One-Way HTTP Requests, Part 3
         3. Status codes
            1. Modifying
               HTTP Error Codes, Part 1
            2. Modifying
               HTTP Error Codes, Part 2
            3. Faults
               and HTTP
      2. TCP
      3. Named pipes
      4. Queues
      5. Extensibility
   4. Delivery failure
      1. Basics
         of Failure
      2. Fault messages
         1. Actions
            for FaultExceptions
         2. A
            Historical, Awkwardly Named Fault
         3. The
            Most Distinguished Fault
      3. Sending faults
         1. Designing
            New Faults
         2. Creating
            Faults, Part 1
         3. Creating
            Faults, Part 2
         4. Creating
            Faults, Part 3
      4. Receiving faults
         1. Zen
            Faults
         2. Consuming
            Faults, Part 1
         3. Consuming
            Faults, Part 2

Next time: Channel Development Tour, Part 1

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 16, 2007
  A table of contents is an excellent idea. It would also be cool if you could find a book publisher for all of your hard work, I for one would be first inline to purchase this great content in hardcover as well.

• Anonymous
  February 16, 2007
  How do I store some state about the current request so that I can use it later during the same service

• Anonymous
  February 18, 2007
  Great work!

• Anonymous
  February 18, 2007
  Finding a publisher is less of a problem than finding time to write a book.  I've gotten several offers already but it's hard to fit it into my schedule.