Windows Communication Foundation - WCF Training Course
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. .NET 4.0 and 4.5 introduces new features to simplify configuration. New ASP.NET MVC Web API.
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
Windows Communication Foundation Training Course Outline
Introduction to WCF:
Overview of SOA; WCF architecture; Services; Endpoints, addresses, binding and contract; Hosting; 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
Managing Operations and Concurrency:
Overview of message exchange patterns (MEPs); Defining synchronous request-reply operations; Defining one-way operations; Defining asynchronous call-back operations; New call-back option of Task-Asynchronous Pattern (PAT) (.NET 4.5); Service synchronization; Managing events; Streaming
Handling Faults:
Overview of service-level faults; Defining fault contracts; Handling exceptions at the client
Managing Security:
Security concepts; Binding security; Specifying credentials; Obtaining security information; Application scenarios: intranet, Internet, B2B, anonymous clients; Federated security and WIF
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 Transactions:
The role of transactions in SOA; Implementing transactional operations; Transaction management and propagation
Queued Services:
Brief Overview of queued services; MSMQ
RESTful Services (WCF and Web API):
Overview of REST; REST bindings in WCF; Web API RESTful services; Creating Controllers; Routing; Authorisation
Workflow Services:
Role of WF in WCF; Creating and hosting a workflow service; Managing workflow instances remotely; Using workflow activities; Consuming Workflow Services
Shorter overview courses also available.
