Developing Windows Communication Foundation Solutions with Ms Visual Studio 2010

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

 

This course 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.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

 

•Implement Service-Oriented Architecture tenets in WCF services

•Host WCF services in a variety of Windows hosts

•Define and implement WCF service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts

•Use multiple endpoints with various messaging patterns

•Test, troubleshoot, monitor, and diagnose WCF services

•Ensure service reliability using transactions and message queues

•Secure WCF services using message and transport security

•Extend WCF using behaviors, dispatchers, inspectors, and formatters.

Before attending this course, students must have:

 

•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

 

•What Is SOA?

•The Benefits of SOA

•Scenarios and Standards

•Introduction to WCF

•Practice the SOA Tenets

•Implement Service Agility and Scalability

•Interoperability with Other SOA Technologies

•Use REST Services

 

Module 2: Getting Started with WCF Development

 

•Service Contract and Implementation

•Hosting WCF Services

•WCF Behaviors

•Consuming WCF Services

•Define Service and Data Contracts

•Create a Service Implementation

•Configure the Service

•Consume the Service Using Channel Factories

•Consume the Service Using Service References

 

Module 3: Hosting WCF Services

 

•WCF Service Hosts

•ServiceHost

•Hosting WCF Services in Windows Services

•IIS, WAS, and AppFabric

•Configuring WCF Hosts

•Service Hosting Best Practices

•Use Windows Server AppFabric

•Use Windows Services

•Host Services in a Windows Application

•Service Monitoring Using Performance Counters

 

Module 4: Defining and Implementing WCF Contracts

 

•What Is a Contract?

•Contract Types

•Messaging Patterns

•Designing WCF Contracts

•Insert Description

•Create a Data Contract

•Implement Message Exchange

 

Module 5: Endpoints and Behaviors

 

•Multiple Endpoints and Interoperability

•WCF Discovery

•WCF Default Endpoints

•Instancing and Concurrency

•Reliability

•Expose Multiple Endpoints

•Use Queued Services

•Use Transactions

•Use Reliable Messaging

•Configure Instancing and Concurrency

•Use WCF Discovery

•Verify MSMQ Topology

 

Module 6: Testing and Troubleshooting WCF Services

 

•Errors and Symptoms

•WCF Faults

•Debugging and Diagnostics Tools

•Runtime Governance

•View Unplanned SOAP Faults

•Use Fault Contracts

•Use Error Handlers and Handling Faults

•Use WCF Message Logging and Tracing

•Support Large Messages

 

Module 7: Security

 

•Introduction to Application Security

•The WCF Security Model

•Transport and Message Security

•Authentication and Authorization

•Claim-Based Identity

•Implement Security Policy

•Configure Client

•Verify Security

 

Module 8: Advanced Topics

 

•The Asynchronous Invocation Pattern

•Extending WCF

•Routing

•Workflow Services

•Use Message Inspectors and Behaviors

•Attach and Access Host Extensions

•Configure and Use Routing

•Implement Asynchronous Invocation

•Implement Workflow Services.