Course Outline
Duration: 24 hours
Module 1: Service-Oriented Architecture
Lessons
- What Is SOA?
- The Benefits of SOA
- Scenarios and Standards
- Introduction to WCF
Lab : Service-Oriented Architecture
- Practicing the SOA Tenets
- Implementing Service Agility and Scalability
- Interoperating with Other SOA Technologies
- Using REST Services
- Describe SOA tenets, scenarios, and benefits for distributed application development
- Design SOA-enabled applications
- Map SOA tenets to equivalent WCF concepts
Module 2: Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Development
Lessons
- Service Contract and Implementation
- Hosting WCF Services
- WCF Behaviors
- Consuming WCF Services
Lab : Service Development Life Cycle
- Defining Service and Data Contracts
- Creating a Service Implementation
- Configuring the Service
- Consuming the Service Using Channel Factories
- Consuming the Service Using Service References
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Design and define service contracts and data contracts for a service
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Write a service implementation class that implements the service contract
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Host WCF services using a variety of endpoints and bindings
- Consume WCF services using client proxies
Module 3: Hosting Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Services
This module explains how to host WCF services using Windows Services, Internet Information Services (IIS) and Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), and Windows Server AppFabric. This module describes how to choose the appropriate host, and how to configure it properly 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
- Using Windows Server AppFabric
- Using Windows Services
- Hosting Services in a Windows Application
- Using Performance Counters for Service Monitoring
- Appreciate and compare different WCF service hosts
- Configure service hosts for optimal service operation
- Host WCF services in Windows Services
- Host WCF services in IIS, WAS, and AppFabric
Module 4: Defining and Implementing Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Contracts
Lessons
- What Is a Contract?
- Contract Types
- Messaging Patterns
- Designing WCF Contracts
Lab : Contract Design and Implementation
- Creating Service Contracts
- Creating Data Contracts
- Implementing Message Exchange
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Design and implement WCF service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts
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Choose the appropriate message exchange pattern
Module 5: Endpoints and Behaviors
Lessons
- Multiple Endpoints and Interoperability
- WCF Discovery
- WCF Default Endpoints
- Instancing and Concurrency
- Reliability
Lab : WCF Endpoints and Behaviors
- Exposing Multiple Endpoints
- Using Queued Services
- Using Transactions
- Using Reliable Messaging
- Configuring Instancing and Concurrency
- Using WCF Discovery
- Verifying MSMQ Topology
- Improve service reliability by using transactions, queues, and reliable messaging
- Choose between the various concurrency and instancing modes and configure them
- Expose discoverable services and discover services using WS-Discovery
Module 6: Testing and Troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Services
Lessons
- Errors and Symptoms
- WCF Faults
- Debugging and Diagnostics Tools
- Runtime Governance
Lab : Testing and Troubleshooting WCF Services
- Viewing Unplanned SOAP Faults
- Using Fault Contracts
- Using Error Handlers and Handling Faults
- Using WCF Message Logging and Tracing
- Supporting Large Messages
- Diagnose service errors and symptoms
- Expose fault information from WCF services and consume faults from client applications
- Use debugging and diagnostics tools for service monitoring and troubleshooting
- Appreciate the importance of runtime governance
Module 7: Security
Lessons
- Introduction to Application Security
- The WCF Security Model
- Transport and Message Security
- Authentication and Authorization
- Claim-Based Identity
Lab : Implementing WCF Security
- Implementing Security Policy
- Configuring Client
- Verifying Security
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Appreciate the application security tenets
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Apply message and transport security to WCF services
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Use built-in and custom authentication and authorization providers
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Integrate claim-based identity into distributed systems
Module 8: Introduction to Advanced Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Topics
Lessons
- The Asynchronous Invocation Pattern
- Extending WCF
- Routing
- Workflow Services
Lab : Advanced Topics
- Using Message Inspectors and Behaviors
- Attaching and Access Host Extensions
- Configuring and Use Routing
- Implementing Asynchronous Invocation
- Implementing Workflow Services