Developing
Windows Communication Foundation Solutions with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Course 10263A: Three days;
Instructor-Led Course Syllabus
Introduction
This three-day instructor-led course
provides participants with the knowledge and skills to develop
distributed applications using WCF 4 and Microsoft Visual Studio
2010.
This course is intended for
professional .NET programmers who use Microsoft Visual Studio in a team-based,
medium-sized to large development environment. Students should have experience
consuming services within their Web and/or Windows client applications and be
interested in learning to develop service-oriented applications (SOA) using
WCF. Students should be experienced users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1,
as well as cursory familiarity with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for Windows
client or Web application development.
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After
completing this course, students will be able to: ·
Implement
Service-Oriented Architecture tenets in WCF services ·
Host WCF services in a
variety of Windows hosts ·
Define and implement WCF
service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts ·
Use multiple endpoints
with various messaging patterns ·
Test, troubleshoot,
monitor, and diagnose WCF services ·
Ensure service
reliability using transactions and message queues ·
Secure WCF services
using message and transport security ·
Extend WCF using
behaviors, dispatchers, inspectors, and formatters |
Course
Outline
Module 1: Service-Oriented Architecture
This module explains how to design
service-oriented applications, how to adhere to SOA tenets, and how to leverage
the benefits of SOA scenarios using WCF.
Lessons
- What Is SOA?
- The Benefits
of SOA
- Scenarios and
Standards
- Introduction
to WCF
Lab:
Service-Oriented Architecture
- Practice the
SOA Tenets
- Implement Service
Agility and Scalability
- Interoperability
with Other SOA Technologies
- Use REST
Services
After completing this
module, students will be able to:
- Describe
SOA tenets, scenarios, and benefits for
distributed application development
- Design SOA-enabled
applications
- Map SOA
tenets to equivalent WCF concepts
Module 2: Getting Started with WCF
Development
This module describes how to implement a
WCF service from the ground up, including defining a contract, implementing the
contract, hosting the service, configuring endpoints, and configuring bindings.
It also explains how to create a proxy to a WCF service using a channel factory
and using the Add Service Reference dialog in Visual Studio 2010.
Lessons
- Service
Contract and Implementation
- Hosting WCF
Services
- WCF Behaviors
- Consuming WCF
Services
Lab: Service
Development Lifecycle
- Define Service
and Data Contracts
- Create a
Service Implementation
- Configure the
Service
- Consume the
Service Using Channel Factories
- Consume the
Service Using Service References
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
- Design and
define service contracts and data contracts for a service
- Write a
service implementation class that implements the service contract
- Host WCF
services using a variety of endpoints and bindings
- Consume WCF
services using client proxies
Module 3: Hosting WCF Services
This module explains how to host WCF
services using Windows Services, IIS and WAS, and AppFabric.
It describes how to choose the appropriate host and how to properly configure
it for your service’s optimal operation.
Lessons
- WCF Service
Hosts
- ServiceHost
- Hosting WCF
Services in Windows Services
- IIS, WAS, and AppFabric
- Configuring
WCF Hosts
- Service
Hosting Best Practices
Lab: Hosting WCF
Services
- Use Windows
Server AppFabric
- Use Windows
Services
- Host Services
in a Windows Application
- Service
Monitoring Using Performance Counters
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
- Appreciate and
compare different WCF service hosts
- Configure
service hosts for optimal service operation
- Host WCF
services in Windows Services
- Host WCF
services in IIS, WAS, and AppFabric
Module 4: Defining and Implementing WCF
Contracts
This module describes how to define
WCF service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts. It explains how
to design WCF contracts appropriately and how to modify WCF contracts according
to the selected messaging pattern.
Lessons
- What Is a
Contract?
- Contract Types
- Messaging
Patterns
- Designing WCF
Contracts
Lab: Contract
Design and Implementation
- Insert
Description
- Create a Data
Contract
- Implement
Message Exchange
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
- Design and
implement WCF service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts
- Choose the
appropriate message exchange pattern
Module 5: Endpoints and Behaviors
This module describes how to expose
multiple endpoints from a WCF service, how to automatically discover services
and make services discoverable, how to configure instancing and concurrency
modes for services, and how to improve service reliability with transactions
and message queues.
Lessons
- Multiple
Endpoints and Interoperability
- WCF Discovery
- WCF Default
Endpoints
- Instancing and
Concurrency
- Reliability
Lab: Endpoints
and Behaviors
- Expose
Multiple Endpoints
- Use Queued Services
- Use
Transactions
- Use Reliable
Messaging
- Configure
Instancing and Concurrency
- Use WCF
Discovery
- Verify MSMQ
Topology
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
- Improve
service reliability by using transactions, queues, and reliable messaging
- Choose between
the various concurrency and instancing modes and configure them
- Expose
discoverable services and discover services using WS-Discovery
Module 6: Testing and Troubleshooting WCF
Services
This module describes how to diagnose
errors and problem root causes in WCF services and how to configure services to
expose fault information. It also explains how to use tracing, message logging,
and other diagnostic and governance tools for monitoring services at runtime.
Lessons
- Errors and
Symptoms
- WCF Faults
- Debugging and
Diagnostics Tools
- Runtime
Governance
Lab: Testing and
Troubleshooting WCF Services
- View Unplanned
SOAP Faults
- Use Fault
Contracts
- Use Error
Handlers and Handling Faults
- Use WCF
Message Logging and Tracing
- Support Large
Messages
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
- Diagnose
service errors and symptoms
- Expose fault
information from WCF services and consume faults from client applications
- Use debugging
and diagnostics tools for service monitoring and troubleshooting
- Appreciate the
importance of runtime governance
Module 7: Security
This module explains how to design
secure applications, how to implement WCF security on the message level and the
transport level, how to integrate authentication and authorization into service
code, and how to apply claim-based identity management in federated scenarios.
Lessons
- Introduction
to Application Security
- The WCF
Security Model
- Transport and
Message Security
- Authentication
and Authorization
- Claim-Based
Identity
Lab: Implementing
WCF Security
- Implement
Security Policy
- Configure
Client
- Verify
Security
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
- Appreciate the
application security tenets
- Apply message
and transport security to WCF services
- Use built-in
and custom authentication and authorization providers
- Integrate
claim-based identity into distributed systems
Module 8: Advanced Topics
This module explains how to improve service
throughput and responsiveness using the asynchronous invocation pattern, and how
to extend WCF services using inspectors, behaviors, and host extensions. It
also describes how to use the WCF routing service for improving service
reliability, and how to use Workflow Services to orchestrate long-running,
durable service work.
Lessons
- The
Asynchronous Invocation Pattern
- Extending WCF
- Routing
- Workflow
Services
Lab: Advanced
Topics
- Use Message
Inspectors and Behaviors
- Attach and
Access Host Extensions
- Configure and
Use Routing
- Implement
Asynchronous Invocation
- Implement
Workflow Services
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
- Apply the
asynchronous invocation pattern to improve service and client performance
- Extend WCF
using behaviors, inspectors, and host extensions
- Use the WCF
routing service to balance load and mask service failures
- Use Workflow
Services to implement long-running durable services
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