Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: Building Effective Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications using Visual Studio 2010

Course Overview

This course provides delegates with the necessary skills and skills to design and implement their own service-oriented applications (SOA) using WCF Service Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. The course is presented as a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. Instructions and solutions are provided in the C# 4.0 language only.

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Audience

• This course is ideal for Developers and Team Leaders who will be using Windows Communication Foundation and the Microsoft .NET Framework to implement a Service Oriented Architecture

Skills Gained

Delegates will learn how to

• Create and manage Windows Communication Foundation - WCF projects in Visual Studio 2010.
• Identify scenarios and standards for a Service Oriented Architecture.
• Describe the role and characteristics of RESTful services.
• Design and implement service, data and message contracts.
• Create, host and consume a simple WCF service.
• Use a variety of hosts including Internet Information Services and Windows Services.
• Configure services for discoverability.
• Implement queued and transactional services.
• Define fault contracts and handle errors.
• Describe the key factors affecting the performance and reliability of services.
• Use a combination of tracing and message logging techniques to monitor WCF services.
• Secure WCF services with both transport and message security.
• Implement claim-based identity.
• Configure content-based and context-based routing.

Prerequisites

• Delegates should already have experience of using the C# programming language, which can be gained by attending one of our C# programming language courses.

Course Outline

Chapter 1 : Fundamentals of Service Oriented Architecture

• SOA Service Oriented Architecture
• Where does WCF fit in?
• Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation - WCF

Chapter 2: Creating and maintaining WCF projects in Visual Studio 2010

• Creating WCF Projects in Visual Studio 2010
• Writing the service Configuring the service
• Testing the service
• Writing the client using channel factories and service references

Chapter 3: Hosting WCF services

• Why must WCF Services be Hosted?
• Types of Host: IIS, WAS, AppFabric, self-hosting
• Which Host to Choose?
• Other Alternatives

Chapter 4: Service Contracts

• Simple Service Contracts
• MetaData, MEX and WSDL
• Generate Proxy Classes from WSDL
• ServiceContract and OperationContract Properties
• Message Exchange Patterns
• Service Versioning

Chapter 5: Data and Message Contracts

• How should data be transferred? P
• OCO and Serializable
• Data Contracts
• DataContract and DataMember attributes
• Inheritance and KnownTypes
• DataContract Versioning and Extension Data?
• Message Contracts

Chapter 6: Fault Contracts and Error Handling

• Faults and exceptions
• The Fault element
• Throwing .NET exceptions
• Throwing custom faults

Chapter 7: Endpoints and Bindings

• Endpoints and Bindings
• System (built in) Bindings
• Custom Bindings
• Default Endpoints
• Multiple Endpoints
• Routing
• Ad-Hoc Discovery
• Managed Discovery

Chapter 8: Behaviors and Instance Management

• Channel Stack
• Behaviors
• Configuring Behaviors in configuration files
• Configuring Behaviors in code
• Instance Management

Chapter 9: Reliable Messaging and Transactions

• Reliable Messaging
• Message Queuing
• Transactions

Chapter 10: RESTful Services

• The principles of REST
• URIs and URITemplates
• REST Tools

Chapter 11: Monitoring and testing WCF services

• Monitoring and testing
• Typical errors in a Service Oriented Architecture
• Outcomes from errors
• Measuring performance
• Monitoring and diagnostics tools

Chapter 12: Securing WCF services

• Security Domains
• WCF Integration
• Authentication and Authorization
• WCF Security Model
• Transport Security
• Message Security
• Claims-Based Identity
• Windows Identity Framework

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