Developing Windows Communication Foundation Solutions with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe SOA tenets, scenarios, and benefits for distributed application development

Design SOA-enabled applications

Map SOA tenets to equivalent WCF concepts

This module describes how to implement a WCF service from the beginning, including defining a contract, implementing the contract, hosting the service, configuring endpoints, and configuring bindings. It also explains how to create a proxy to a WCF service using a channel factory, and using the Add Service Reference dialog box in Visual Studio 2010.

Service Contract and Implementation

Hosting WCF Services

WCF Behaviors

Consuming WCF Services

Defining Service and Data Contracts

Creating a Service Implementation

Configuring the Service

Consuming the Service Using Channel Factories

Consuming the Service Using Service References

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design and define service contracts and data contracts for a service

Write a service implementation class that implements the service contract

Host WCF services using a variety of endpoints and bindings

Consume WCF services using client proxies

This module explains how to host WCF services using Windows Services, Internet Information Services (IIS) and Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), and Windows

Server AppFabric. This module describes how to choose the appropriate host, and how to configure it properly for your service’s optimal operation.

WCF Service Hosts

ServiceHost

Hosting WCF Services in Windows Services

IIS, WAS, and AppFabric

Configuring WCF Hosts

Service Hosting Best Practices

Using Windows Server AppFabric

Using Windows Services

Hosting Services in a Windows Application

Using Performance Counters for Service Monitoring

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Appreciate and compare different WCF service hosts

Configure service hosts for optimal service operation

Host WCF services in Windows Services

Host WCF services in IIS, WAS, and AppFabric

This module describes how to define WCF service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts. This module explains how to design WCF contracts appropriately, and how to modify WCF contracts according to the selected messaging pattern.

What Is a Contract?

Contract Types

Messaging Patterns

Designing WCF Contracts

Creating Service Contracts

Creating Data Contracts

Implementing Message Exchange

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design and implement WCF service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts

Choose the appropriate message exchange pattern

This module describes how to expose multiple endpoints from a WCF service, how to automatically discover services and make services discoverable, how to configure instancing and concurrency modes for services, and how to improve service reliability with transactions and message queues.

Multiple Endpoints and Interoperability

WCF Discovery

WCF Default Endpoints

Instancing and Concurrency

Reliability

Exposing Multiple Endpoints

Using Queued Services

Using Transactions

Using Reliable Messaging

Configuring Instancing and Concurrency

Using WCF Discovery

Verifying MSMQ Topology

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Improve service reliability by using transactions, queues, and reliable messaging

Choose between the various concurrency and instancing modes and configure them

Expose discoverable services and discover services using WS-Discovery

This module describes how to diagnose errors and problem root causes in WCF services, and how to configure services to expose fault information. It also explains how to use tracing, message logging, and other diagnostic and governance tools for monitoring services at runtime.

Errors and Symptoms

WCF Faults

Debugging and Diagnostics Tools

Runtime Governance

Viewing Unplanned SOAP Faults

Using Fault Contracts

Using Error Handlers and Handling Faults

Using WCF Message Logging and Tracing

Supporting Large Messages

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Diagnose service errors and symptoms

Expose fault information from WCF services and consume faults from client applications

Use debugging and diagnostics tools for service monitoring and troubleshooting

Appreciate the importance of runtime governance

This module explains how to design secure applications, how to implement WCF security on both the message level and the transport level, how to integrate authentication and authorization into service code, and how to apply claim-based identity management in federated scenarios.

Introduction to Application Security

The WCF Security Model

Transport and Message Security

Authentication and Authorization

Claim-Based Identity

Implementing Security Policy

Configuring Client

Verifying Security

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Appreciate the application security tenets

Apply message and transport security to WCF services

Use built-in and custom authentication and authorization providers

Integrate claim-based identity into distributed systems

This module explains how to improve service throughput and responsiveness using the asynchronous invocation pattern, and how to extend WCF services using inspectors, behaviors, and host extensions. It also describes how to use the WCF routing service for improving service reliability, and how to use Workflow Services to orchestrate long-running, durable, service work.

The Asynchronous Invocation Pattern

Extending WCF

Routing

Workflow Services

Using Message Inspectors and Behaviors

Attaching and Access Host Extensions

Configuring and Use Routing

Implementing Asynchronous Invocation

Implementing Workflow Services

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Apply the asynchronous invocation pattern to improve service and client performance

Extend WCF using behaviors, inspectors, and host extensions

Use the WCF routing service to balance load and mask service failures

Use Workflow Services to implement long-running durable services