Course Outline
WCF is a Service Oriented messaging system that allows programs to communicate locally or remotely - it's Web Services on steroids - and aims to deal with some of the gaps found between .NET Remoting and .NET Web Services.
Course Content
Our hands-on WCF training course has been developed for real-world, commercial scenarios by our expert instructors. See below for detailed syllabus, or if you have a technical question, please email sales@jbinternational.co.uk
What you will learn
On this course, you will learn the following:
- Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
- WCF Architecture
- Channels
- Bindings
- Messages
- Serialization
- Contracts
- Faults
- Callbacks
- Behaviors
- Hosting
- Diagnostics
- Secure Communication
- Authorization
- Reliable Messaging
- Queues
- Transactions
- Interop
Windows Communication Foundation Training Course Outline
Introduction to WCF:
Overview of SOA; WCF architecture; Services, contracts, and addresses; Hosting; Bindings; Endpoints; Metadata exchange; Configuration; Implementing and consuming a service
Defining Service Contracts:
Mapping operations to methods; Overloading operations; Using inheritance; Best practices; Querying contracts; Message contracts; Implementing catch-all contracts
Defining Data Contracts:
What is a data contract? Serialization issues; Using data contract attributes; Versioning data contracts; Using data sets and tables; Using collections and generics
Defining Endpoints and Behaviors:
Defining multiple endpoints; Adding behaviors to services and endpoints; Calling non-WCF services; Managing service instances: per-call, per-session, and singleton; Throttling calls
Handling Faults:
Overview of service-level faults; Defining fault contracts; Handling exceptions at the client
Discovery:
Overview of WS-Discovery; Simple ad-hoc service discovery; Using scope when discovering endpoints; Service announcements
Routing:
Overview of RoutingService; Hosting the RoutingService; Configuring the RoutingService with message filters; Content-based routing; Protocol bridging; Error handling; Multicast routing
Managing Operations and Concurrency:
Overview of message exchange patterns (MEPs); Defining synchronous request-reply operations; Defining one-way operations; Defining asynchronous call-back operations; Service synchronization; Managing events; Streaming
Managing Transactions:
The role of transactions in SOA; Implementing transactional operations; Transaction management and propagation
Managing Security:
Security concepts; Binding security; Specifying credentials; Obtaining security information; Application scenarios: intranet, Internet, B2B, anonymous clients; Federated security and WIF
Queued Services:
Brief Overview of queued services;
RESTful Services:
Overview of REST; REST bindings in WCF; Implementing RESTful services; Consuming RESTful services; Caching
Workflow Services:
role of WF in WCF; Creating and hosting a workflow service; Managing workflow instances remotely; Using workflow activities
Messaging & Routing:
Brief Overview of messaging and routing;
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WCF Essentials
WCF Overview
SOA Overview
WCF architecture
Essential WCF concepts:
- Addresses
- Contracts
- Bindings
- Endpoints
- Hosting
- Clients
Contracts
Designing and working with service contracts
Contract overloading and inheritance
Data Contracts
Serialization
Attributes
Versioning
Collections & Generics
Instance Management & Operation
Behaviours
Per-Call Services
Per-Session Services
Singleton Service
Demarcating Operations
Instance Deactivation
Throttling
Operations:
- Request-Reply
- One-Way
- Callback
- Events
- Streaming
Faults
Errors and exceptions
Fault Contracts
Error handling Extensions
Transactions
Transaction Propagation
Protocols and Managers
The Transaction Class
Declarative Programming
Explicit Transaction Programming
With Instance management
Callbacks
Security
Authentication & Authorization
Transfer Security
Scenario-Driven Approach
Concurrency Management
Service Concurrency Mode
Instance Management and Concurrency
Deadlocked Avoidance
Synchronization Context
Callbacks
Queued Services
Disconnected Services and Clients
Queued Vs Connected Calls
REST and POX
Consuming WCF
Ado.Net Data Services
WCF RIA Services
Contracts
