Highlights
- Windows Communication Foundation Architecture
- Understand what a Service Oriented Architecture is
- Understand Endpoints (Addresses, Bindings, Contracts)
- Create Web Services
- Create Service Clients
- Use diagnostics tools (Message Logging and Tracing)
- Understand Security Considerations
- Understand Routing
- Create REST Services using Web API
Course Details
Introduction to WCF
- Overview of SOA
- WCF architecture
- Services
- Endpoints (Address, Binding and Contract)
- Hosting
- Metadata exchange
- Configuration
- Implementing and consuming a service
Defining Service Contracts
- Mapping operations to methods
- Overloading operations
- Using inheritance
- Best practices
- Querying contracts
- Message contracts
- Implementing catch-all contracts
Defining Data Contracts
- What is a data contract?
- Serialization issues
- Using data contract attributes
- Versioning data contracts
- Using data sets and tables
- Using collections and generics
Defining Endpoints and Behaviors
- Defining multiple endpoints
- Adding behaviors to services and endpoints
- Calling non-WCF services
- Managing service instances (per-call, per-session and singleton)
- Throttling calls
Managing Operations and Concurrency
- Overview of message exchange patterns (MEPs)
- Defining synchronous request-reply operations
- Defining one-way operations
- Defining asynchronous call-back operations
- New call-back option of Task-Asynchronous Pattern (PAT) (.NET 4.5)
- Service synchronization
Managing events
Handling Faults
- Overview of service-level faults
- Defining fault contracts
- Handling exceptions at the client
Managing Security
- Security concepts
- Binding security
- Specifying credentials
- Obtaining security information
- Application scenarios (intranet, Internet, B2B, anonymous clients)
- Federated security and WIF
Discovery
- Overview of WS-Discovery
- Simple ad-hoc service discovery
- Using scope when discovering endpoints
- Service announcements
Routing
- Overview of RoutingService
- Hosting the RoutingService
- Configuring the RoutingService with message filters
- Content-based routing
- Protocol bridging
- Error handling
- Multicast routing
Managing Transactions
- The role of transactions in SOA
- Implementing transactional operations
- Transaction management and propagation
Queued Services
- Brief Overview of queued services
- MSMQ
RESTful Services (WCF and Web API)
- Overview of REST
- REST bindings in WCF
- Web API RESTful services
- Creating Controllers
- Routing
- Authorisation
Workflow Services
- Role of WF in WCF
- Creating and hosting a workflow service
- Managing workflow instances remotely
- Using workflow activities
- Consuming Workflow Services
- Shorter overview courses also available.
Who should attend
Developers and Architects who need to realise the full potential of WCF within their .NET projects.
Feedback
4.8 out of 5 average
"I found the course very interesting and the content was tailored to our company, to maximise the learning experience and help our day to day use. The trainer was passionate about the course and carried a good pace throughout the day."
TD, Program Analyst, WCF, February 2021
“JBI did a great job of customizing their syllabus to suit our business needs and also bringing our team up to speed on the current best practices. Our teams varied widely in terms of experience and the Instructor handled this particularly well - very impressive”
Brian F, Team Lead, RBS, Data Analysis Course, 20 April 2022
