WCF

INTRODUCING WCF

• Overview
• Microsoft connected systems
• The move towards services
• Service design philosophies
• SOAP-based services
• RESTful services
• Service-orientation and SOA
• The ideal communication framework
• Introducing WCF
• Demo: Writing a simple WCF service
• Services and endpoints
• Built-in bindings
• Consuming services with WCF
• Demo: Writing a simple WCF client

PROGRAMMING SERVICES

• Overview
• Defining data contracts
• Defining service contracts
• Implementing services
• Demo: Writing a simple service
• Hosting services
• Configuring services within a host
• Demo: Writing a host application
• Defining endpoints in configuration
• Demo: Using the WCF config section
• Addresses and bindings
• Binding configurations
• Demo: Defining a binding configuration
• Service behaviors
• Demo: Applying a service behavior
• Service exceptions

PROGRAMMING CLIENTS

• Overview
• Retrieving endpoint definitions
• Demo: Using SvcUtil.exe
• Demo: Using Service References
• Specifying client endpoints
• Channel lifecycle
• Demo: Creating, using, and closing channels
• Demo: Using the proxy class
• Exceptions and faults
• Demo: Handling various exceptions
• Invoking services asynchronously
• Demo: Using the WCF 3.5 async model
• Sharing assemblies and reusing types

RESTFUL SERVICES

• Overview
• Understanding REST
• Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA)
• Tradeoffs and guidance
• REST support in WCF 3.5
• Configuring WCF services for REST
• Demo: Implementing a RESTful service
• Demo: Using WebServiceHost/Factory
• Demo: Calling a RESTful service

SERIALIZATION

• Overview
• WCF serializers
• Demo: Serialization and SvcUtil.exe
• XmlSerializer
• NetDataContractSerializer
• DataContractSerializer
• DCS supported types
• [DataContract] mapping
• Demo: Using [DataContract] and [DataMember]
• Composition, derivation, and known types
• Demo: Using [KnownType]
• Enumerations
• DataSets, arrays, and collections
• Demo: Using collections vs. DataSet
• Demo: Bringing it all together