This three-day training provides participants with the knowledge and skills to develop distributed applications using WCF 4 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Doelgroep

This training is intended for professional .NET programmers who use Microsoft Visual Studio in a team-based, medium-sized to large development environment. Students should have experience consuming services within their Web and/or Windows client applications and be interested in learning to develop service-oriented applications (SOA) using WCF. Students should be experienced users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1, as well as cursory familiarity with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for Windows client or Web application development.

Taal

The course material and exercises for this training are available in both VB.NET and C#.NET.

Voorkennis

This course requires that you meet the following prerequisites:

• Understanding of the problem-solving techniques that apply to software development.
• General understanding of the purpose, function, and features of the .NET Framework.
• Experience developing software using Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010.
• Experience in object-oriented design and development using the C# programming language.
• Experience in n-tier application design and development.

Module 1, "Service-Oriented Architecture" explains how to design service-oriented applications, how to adhere to SOA tenets, and how to leverage the benefits of SOA scenarios using WCF.

Module 2, "Getting Started with WCF Development" describes how to implement a WCF service from the ground up, 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 in Visual Studio 2010.

Module 3, "Hosting WCF Services" explains how to host WCF services using Windows Services, IIS and WAS, and AppFabric. It describes how to choose the appropriate host and how to properly configure it for your service’s optimal operation.

Module 4, "Defining and Implementing WCF Contracts" describes how to define WCF service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts. It explains how to design WCF contracts appropriately and how to modify WCF contracts according to the selected messaging pattern.

Module 5, "Endpoints and Behaviors" 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.

Module 6, "Testing and Troubleshooting WCF Services" 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.

Module 7, "Security" explains how to design secure applications, how to implement WCF security on 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.

Module 8, "Advanced Topics" 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.