WCF training course

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.