This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to develop distributed applications using WCF 4 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. This course designed for experienced .NET developers who are interested in becoming Technology Specialists in the area of WCF application development (see intended audience and prerequisites in this syllabus). For classrooms that include less experienced students, instructors may choose to adjust the course timings and establish a slower pace through the training material. To deliver this course at a reduced pace, Microsoft Learning suggests teaching Modules 1-7 during the three days of classroom training and leaving module 8 for the students to explore on their own after the course is completed. This will enable the instructor to spend more time ensuring that students fully understand the concepts taught in the earlier modules. Learning Partners may also choose to extend the course materials and establish a 4-day customized training course that progresses at a slower pace.

• 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

Topics :

Service-Oriented Architecture

• What Is SOA?
• The Benefits of SOA
• Scenarios and Standards
• Introduction to WCF

Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Development

• Service Contract and Implementation
• Hosting WCF Services
• WCF Behaviors
• Consuming WCF Services

Hosting Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Services

• WCF Service Hosts
• ServiceHost
• Hosting WCF Services in Windows Services
• IIS, WAS, and AppFabric
• Configuring WCF Hosts
• Service Hosting Best Practices

Defining and Implementing Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Contracts

• What Is a Contract?
• Contract Types
• Messaging Patterns
• Designing WCF Contracts

Endpoints and Behaviors

• Multiple Endpoints and Interoperability
• WCF Discovery
• WCF Default Endpoints
• Instancing and Concurrency
• Reliability

Testing and Troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Services

• Errors
• Governance

Security

• Introduction to Application Security
• The WCF Security Model
• Transport and Message Security
• Authentication and Authorization
• Claim-Based Identity

Introduction to Advanced Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Topics

• The Asynchronous Invocation Pattern
• Extending WCF
• Routing
• Workflow Services