Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: Building Effective Windows Comminication
Foundation Applications Using Visual Studio 2010

Product Description

Overview

This class provides delegates with the necessary skills & techniques to design & implement their own service-oriented applications (SOA) using WCF Service Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
The class is presented as a mixture of lectures & hands-on exercises. Instructions & solutions are provided in the C 4.0 language only.
Class Outline
Module 1: Fundamentals of Service Oriented Architecture
- SOA
What is a Service Oriented Architecture?
The tenets of SOA
Scenarios & standards for SOA
Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation ? WCF
RESTful services
Module 2: Creating & maintaining WCF projects in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 templates for WCF
Defining & implementing service contracts
Hosting & configuring simple WCF service
Consuming a simple WCF service with a proxy
Using channel factories & service references
Module 3: Hosting WCF services
WCF service hosts
Hosting a WCF service with a Windows Service
Hosting a WCF with App Fabric, Internet Information Services -IIS & Windows Application Services -WAS
Configuring hosted services
Module 4: Designing & implementing WCF contracts
Contract types
Service contracts
Data contracts
Message contracts
Generic message handling
Module 5: Endpoints & Behaviors
Defining single & multiple endpoints
Configuring a service for discoverability
Implementing queued & transactional services
Managing service instances & concurrency
Module 6: RESTful services
Introduction to Representational State Transfer ? REST
Implementing a RESTful service
Consuming a RESTful service
WCF Data Services
Module 7: Monitoring & testing WCF services
Errors & faults
Error handling
Reasons to monitor
Diagnositic tools
Tracing & message logging
Module 8: Securing WCF services
The WCF Security Model
Transport & Message Security
Authentication & Authorization
Claim-based identity
Security auditing
Module 9: Advanced WCF features
Message Inspectors & Behaviors
Asynchronous Invocation Pattern
Routing
Workflow Services