Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step

Description

Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building connected, service-oriented applications.

Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4 -- one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the clear guidance and hands-on examples you need to begin creating Web services for robust Windows-based business applications.

Discover how to:

• Build and host SOAP and REST services
• Maintain service contracts and data contracts
• Control configuration and communications programmatically
• Implement message encryption, authentication, and authorization
• Manage identity with Windows CardSpace
• Begin working with Windows Workflow Foundation to create scalable and durable business services
• Implement service discovery and message routing
• Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming
• Integrate WCF services with ASP.NET clients and enterprise services components

Your Step by Step digital content includes:

• Practice exercises
• Downloadable code samples
• Fully searchable online edition of the book -- with unlimited access on the Web

Sample Content

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Communication Foundation
• Chapter 2: Hosting a WCF Service
• Chapter 3: Making Applications and Services Robust
• Chapter 4: Protecting an Enterprise WCF Service
• Chapter 5: Protecting a WCF Service over the Internet
• Chapter 6: Maintaining Service Contracts and Data Contracts
• Chapter 7: Maintaining State and Sequencing Operations
• Chapter 8: Implementing Services by Using Workflows
• Chapter 9: Supporting Transactions
• Chapter 10: Implementing Reliable Sessions
• Chapter 11: Programmatically Controlling the Configuration and Communications
• Chapter 12: Implementing One-Way and Asynchronous Operations
• Chapter 13: Implementing a WCF Service for Good Performance
• Chapter 14: Discovering Services and Routing Messages
• Chapter 15: Building REST Services
• Chapter 16: Using a Callback Contract to Publish and Subscribe to Events
• Chapter 17: Managing Identity with Windows CardSpace
• Chapter 18: Integrating with ASP.NET Clients and Enterprise Services Components

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