WCF Online Training

WCF Online Training

WCF Online Training Course Content :

Introducing Windows Communication Foundation

• What Is Windows Communication Foundation?
• The Early Days of Personal Computer Applications
• Inter-Process Communications Technologies
• The Web and Web Services
• Using XML as a Common Data Format
• Sending and Receiving Web Service Requests
• JavaScript Object Notation and Rich Internet Applications
• Handling Security and Privacy in a Global Environment
• Service-Oriented Architectures and Windows Communication
• Foundation
• Building a WCF Service
• Defining the Contracts
• Implementing the Service
• Configuring and Testing the Service
• Building a WCF Client Application
• Deploying a WCF Service to Internet Information Services
• WCF and the Principles of SOA
• Summary

Hosting a WCF Service

• How Does a WCF Service Work?
• Service Endpoints
• Processing a Client Request
• Hosting a WCF Service by Using Windows Process Activation Service
• Hosting a Service in a User Application
• Using the ServiceHost Class
• Building a Windows Presentation Foundation Application to Host a WCF
• Service
• Reconfiguring the Service to Support Multiple Endpoints
• Understanding Endpoints and Bindings
• The WCF Predefined Bindings
• Configuring Bindings
• Default Endpoints
• Hosting a WCF Service in a Windows Service
• Summary

Making Applications and Services Robust

• CLR Exceptions and SOAP Faults
• Throwing and Catching a SOAP Fault
• Using Strongly Typed Faults
• Reporting Unanticipated Exceptions
• Managing Exceptions in Service Host Applications
• ServiceHost States and Transitions
• Handling Faults in a Host Application
• Handling Unexpected Messages in a Host Application
• Summary

Protecting an Enterprise WCF Service

• What Is Security?
• Authentication and Authorization in a Windows Environment
• Transport-Level and Message-Level Security
• Implementing Security in a Windows Domain
• Protecting a TCP Service at the Message Level
• Protecting an HTTP Service at the Transport Level
• Protecting an HTTP Service at the Message Level
• Authenticating Windows Users
• Authorizing Users
• Using Impersonation to Access Resources
• Summary

Protecting a WCF Service over the Internet

• Authenticating Users and Services in an Internet Environment
• Authenticating and Authorizing Users by Using the ASPNET
• Membership Provider and the ASPNET Role Provider
• Authenticating and Authorizing Users by Using Certificates
• Authenticating Service Messages by Using a Certificate
• Summary

Maintaining Service Contracts and Data Contracts

• Modifying a Service Contract
• Selectively Protecting Operations
• Versioning a Service
• Making Breaking and Non breaking Changes to a Service Contract
• Modifying a Data Contract
• Data Contract and Data Member Attributes
• Data Contract Compatibility
• Summary

Maintaining State and Sequencing Operations

• Managing State in a WCF Service
• Service Instance Context Modes
• Maintaining State with the PerCall Instance Context Mode
• Selectively Controlling Service Instance Deactivation
• Sequencing Operations in a WCF Service
• Summary

Implementing Services by Using Workflows

• Building a Simple Workflow Service and Client Application
• Implementing a Workflow Service
• Implementing a Client Application for a Workflow Service
• Handling Faults in a Workflow Service
• Hosting a Workflow Service
• Hosting a Workflow Service in IIS
• Hosting a Workflow Service in a Custom Application
• Implementing Common Messaging Patterns in a Workflow Service
• Messaging Activities
• Correlating Request and Reply Messages in a
• Workflow Service Instance
• Using Messaging Activities to Implement Messaging
• Patterns
• Managing Sessions and Maintaining State in a Workflow Service
• Building Durable Workflow Services
• Summary

Supporting Transactions

• Using Transactions in a WCF Service
• Implementing OLE Transactions
• Implementing the WS-Atomic Transaction Protocol
• Designing a WCF Service to Support Transactions
• Transactions, Sessions, and Service Instance Context Modes
• Transactions and Messaging
• Transactions and Multi-Threading
• Implementing Transactions in a Workflow Service
• Long-Running Transactions
• Summary

Implementing Reliable Sessions

• Using Reliable Messaging
• Implementing Reliable Sessions with WCF
• Detecting and Handling Replay Attacks
• Configuring Replay Detection with WCF
• Summary

Programmatically Controlling

• the Configuration and Communications
• The WCF Service Model
• Services and Channels
• Behaviors
• Composing Channels into Bindings
• Inspecting Messages
• Controlling Client Communications
• Connecting to a Service Programmatically
• Sending Messages Programmatically
• Summary

Implementing One-Way and Asynchronous Operations

• Implementing One-Way Operations
• The Effects of a One-Way Operation
• One-Way Operations and Transactions
• One-Way Operations and Timeouts
• Implementing a One-Way Operation
• Recommendations for Using One-Way Operations
• Invoking and Implementing Operations Asynchronously
• Invoking an Operation Asynchronously in a Client Application
• Implementing an Operation Asynchronously in a WCF Service
• Using Message Queues
• Summary

Implementing a WCF Service for Good Performance

• Using Service Throttling to Control Resource Use
• Configuring Service Throttling
• Specifying Memory Requirements
• Transmitting Data by Using MTOM
• Sending Large Binary Data Objects to a Client Application
• Controlling the Size of Messages
• Streaming Data from a WCF Service
• Enabling Streaming in a WCF Service and Client Application
• Designing Operations to Support Streaming
• Security Implications of Streaming
• Summary

Discovering Services and Routing Messages

• Implementing Discovery
• Configuring Ad Hoc Discovery
• Handling Service Announcements
• Using a Discovery Proxy
• Implementing Routing
• Routing Messages Manually
• Using the Routing Service Class
• Summary

Building REST Services

• Understanding the REST Model
• Querying Data by Implementing a REST Web Service
• Updating Data Through a REST Web Service
• Using WCF Data Services
• Consuming a WCF Data Service in a Client Application
• Modifying Data by Using a WCF Data Service
• Handling Exceptions in a Client Application
• Summary

Using a Callback Contract to Publish and Subscribe to Events

• Implementing and Invoking a Client Callback
• Defining a Callback Contract
• Implementing an Operation in a Callback Contract
• Invoking an Operation in a Callback Contract
• Reentrancy and Threading in a Callback Operation
• Bindings and Duplex Channels
• Using a Callback Contract to Notify a Client of the Outcome of a
• One-Way Operation
• Using a Callback Contract to Implement an Eventing Mechanism
• Delivery Models for Publishing and Subscribing
• Summary

Managing Identity with Windows Card Space

• Using Windows CardSpace to Access a WCF Service
• Implementing Claims-Based Security
• Using an Identity Provider
• Claims-Based Authentication in a Federated Environment
• Summary

Integrating with ASPNET Clients and Enterprise Services

• Components
• Creating a WCF Service That Supports an ASPNET Client
• Exposing a COM+ Application as a WCF Service
• Summary