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Create secure & effective Web Services With Visual Studio WCF

"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

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20/01/25 - 3 days

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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

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

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More about this course

Our Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) training course is expert-led focusing on creating web services utilising the many features available with WCF. This course explores WCF to illustrate its flexibility allowing use of a range of protocols and security techniques. The approach is to first create simple services and their clients before quickly moving on to support a wide range of features.