Understanding Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Training Course

Service-Oriented Architecture

• SOA - Definition, scenarios and benefits
• WCF and SOA

• The Service Contract and the Data Contract
• The implementation of the Contract
• Hosting a WCF service: why and how
• How to consume a service
• The endpoints
• The ABC (Address, Binding, Contract)
• Behaviors>

• Proxy creation through Visual Studio
• When and how to use the Channel Factory

• Understanding the role of the host
• The available options for hosting (custom vs. commercial) and how to choose
• Hosting on IIS, WAS, AppFabric
• Long running processes and Windows services hosts
• Creating a custom host - why and how
• Service host configuration and monitoring

• Contract types
• The central role of bindings
• Why having multiple endpoints
• Interoperability
• Default endpoints

• SOAP vs REST
• Messaging patterns, how to choose
• Instancing and Concurrency, combining the options

• Understanding the channel stack and the protocols

• Improve service reliability by using transactions, queues, and reliable messaging
• Using routing

• How to discover and make services available through WS-Discovery

• How to individuate errors and how to deal with them
• Exceptions vs Faults
• Using Fault Contracts
• How to write custom error handlers and why
• Message logging and tracing

• The holistic view
• Authentication and Authorisation
• The security model
• Transport and Message security

• How and when to extend WCF through behaviors, inspectors and host extensions