Creating and Consuming WCF Web Services

Overview/Description
This course covers Microsoft's principal framework for building remote services, Windows Communication Foundation, and is one of a series that prepares students for Microsoft exam 70-487.

Target Audience
Developers wanting to understand Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation services framework and those preparing for Microsoft exam 70-487.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Creating and Consuming WCF Web Services

• start the course
• explain WCF, its uses, and the basics of how it works
• create a simple end-to-end WCF service and explain data and service contracts
• explain data contracts for WCF services and their uses
• explain message contracts for WCF services and their uses
• explain fault contracts for WCF services and their uses
• implement message inspectors to inspect and manipulate incoming messages in a WCF service
• implement asynchronous operations within WCF services to improve their scalability
• explain what aspects of a WCF service you can configure using a .NET configuration file
• configure common and more advanced endpoint settings for WCF services
• configure common and more advanced binding settings for WCF services
• configure common and more advanced service behavior settings for WCF services
• implement WebSocket-specific binding settings for WCF services
• configure a WCF service metadata endpoint
• explain the need for message compression and message encodings, and configure them for WCF services
• explain how to perform basic WCF service configuration using an API
• configure WCF service endpoints, bindings, and behavior using an API
• configure WCF service routing using an API
• implement WCF service and client discovery
• explain the basic concepts and components of security in WCF services
• implement message- and transport-level security in WCF services
• implement certificates for security in WCF services
• implement multiple authentication schemes in WCF services
• create a service proxy for a WCF service using a Visual Studio wizard
• understand how to create proxies by hand using the SvcUtil command-line tool
• implement a channel factory for WCF services
• explain how to version contracts for WCF services
• explain how to version addresses, bindings, and routings for WCF services
• implement one-way messaging for WCF Services
• implement streaming messaging for WCF services
• implement duplex messaging for WCF services
• choose appropriate host types and create the hosts for WCF services
• implement WCF services that can participate in distributed transactions
• use AppFabric to manage WCF services
• implement and host a WCF service