David Pallmann was first to have an Indigo book out in the public. See http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/7703.asp for details.

Two sample chapters are available on the MSDN web:

• The Programming Model. http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/progindigoch3.asp
• Contracts. http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/progindigoch5.asp

I'm halfway through the book and so far its well worth the money! The book is more of a how-to book than a reference book, but for a first book on Indigo that is just right!

Unfortunately the book has some minor flaws (like typos and plain errors) which makes it necessary to look up details in the SDK documentation from time to time instead of just reading the book.

I'll update this post with a resume of the book.

The setup procedure described in the SDK documentation to reinstall Indigo has some bad file references. The docs should be updated for beta1 but until then this is the correct procedure (with the correct file paths):

"%windir%\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50215\aspnet_regiis.exe" –i
"%windir%\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50215\xws_reg.exe" -i
cscript "%windir%\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50215\InstallIndigo.js"

Yasser Shohoud (Microsoft) has published a set of slides about Indigo Beta 1 (RC1). The files are on his site http://www.learnxmlws.com/ (download the presentations directly here: http://www.learnxmlws.com/files/LapAroundIndigo.zip).

I've long thought about ways to share small, hopefully useful things I come up with. I've also wanted to collect and share interesting and sometimes not obvious things I find in the development community. I've managed this in various ways so far, until it recently occurred to me - I need a blog. My blog should be a place where you can find things about architecture and development in general but with focus on communication solutions (i.e. web services). I've recently played a lot with Microsoft's new communication platform, Indigo, and I think there are a lot of stuff to share in that area. I hope this will be a useful source of information to others.