WCF Instancing and Concurrency and WCF Data Services

Overview/Description
This course covers some advanced topics of Windows Communication Foundation together with a newer, alternative approach to building services based on WCF, and is one of a series that prepares students for Microsoft exam 70-487.

Target Audience
Developers wanting to understand WCF's more advanced instancing and concurrency models and WCF Data Services and those preparing for Microsoft exam 70-487.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

WCF Instancing and Concurrency and WCF Data Services

• start the course
• explain the concurrency options available for WCF services
• explain the service instance options available for WCF services
• implement per-call WCF service instances
• implement per-session WCF service instances
• implement per-singleton WCF service instances
• explain WCF Data Services and why they were added to WCF
• explain and construct resources and addresses in a WCF Data Service
• create a simple service using WCF Data Services
• create a proxy client to call a WCF Data Services service
• create query expressions for use with a WCF Data Services service
• create filters for queries against a WCF Data Service service
• request specific payload formats for queries against a WCF Data Services service and process them appropriately
• create a data service interceptor to introduce custom query and update logic for use against a WCF Data Services service
• use new query operators in queries against a WCF Data Services service
• implement WCF Data Services service