10263 Developing Windows Communication Foundation Solutions
with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
About this Course
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.
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Audience Profile
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.
At Course Completion
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
Course Outline
Module 1: Service-Oriented Architecture
This module explains how to design service-oriented
applications, how to adhere to SOA tenets, and how to leverage the
benefits of SOA scenarios using WCF.
Lessons
- What Is SOA?
- The Benefits of SOA
- Scenarios and Standards
- Introduction to WCF
Lab : Service-Oriented Architecture
Module 2: Getting Started with WCF
Development
This module 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.
Lessons
- Service Contract and Implementation
- Hosting WCF Services
- WCF Behaviors
- Consuming WCF Services
Lab : Service Development Lifecycle
Module 3: Hosting WCF Services
This module 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.
Lessons
- WCF Service Hosts
- ServiceHost
- Hosting WCF Services in Windows Services
- IIS, WAS, and AppFabric
- Configuring WCF Hosts
- Service Hosting Best Practices
Lab : Hosting WCF Services
Module 4: Defining and Implementing WCF
Contracts
This module 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.
Lessons
- What Is a Contract?
- Contract Types
- Messaging Patterns
- Designing WCF Contracts
Lab : Contract Design and Implementation
Module 5: Endpoints and Behaviors
This module 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.
Lessons
- Multiple Endpoints and Interoperability
- WCF Discovery
- WCF Default Endpoints
- Instancing and Concurrency
- Reliability
Lab : Endpoints and Behaviors
Module 6: Testing and Troubleshooting WCF
Services
This module 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.
Lessons
- Errors and Symptoms
- WCF Faults
- Debugging and Diagnostics Tools
- Runtime Governance
Lab : Testing and Troubleshooting WCF
Services
Module 7: Security
This module 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.
Lessons
- Introduction to Application Security
- The WCF Security Model
- Transport and Message Security
- Authentication and Authorization
- Claim-Based Identity
Lab : Implementing WCF Security
Module 8: Advanced Topics
This module 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.
Lessons
- The Asynchronous Invocation Pattern
- Extending WCF
- Routing
- Workflow Services
Lab : Advanced Topics