WCF Training: Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 with C#

Course Number: WCF-202
Duration: 3 days
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WCF Training Overview

Accelebrate's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) training class teaches attendees the essential concepts of WCF and how to implement WCF services and clients. The course uses .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=category&page=winforms.

WCF Training Prerequisites

Students in this WCF 4.0 with C# training class should have a good working knowledge of building .NET applications with C#. Knowledge of building distributed systems and Web services will also be an advantage.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This WCF training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting 20 minutes.

WCF Training Materials

All WCF 4.0 with C# training students receive more than 300 pages of comprehensive courseware and a related textbook.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Windows XP, Vista, or 7 with at least 2GB RAM
Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition or higher, with the latest service packs and with SQL Server Express enabled
If you have purchased this class, please contact us for more detailed setup specifications

WCF Training Objectives

All attendees will learn how to:

Learn what WCF is, and how it unites existing distribution mechanisms
Gain an understanding of addressing and binding in WCF services
Use service contracts and data contracts
Implement WCF services and clients
Perform configuration in both code and configuration files
Understand faults and handle errors in WCF applications
Implement security in WCF applications

WCF Training Outline

WCF Essentials

What is WCF?
Address, Binding and Contract
WCF Services and Clients
WCF Service Libraries
WCF Test Host and Test Client
Self-Hosting
WCF Clients
Channel Factories
Creating Proxies
Configuration Files
Metadata
Standard Endpoints
WCF Architecture

Addresses and Bindings

Addresses
Bindings
Message Exchange Patterns
Configuring Bindings
Interoperating with ASMX Web Services
Default Endpoints and Bindings
Service Descriptions
Multiple Endpoints

Service Contracts

Defining Service Contracts
Defining Operation Contracts
Services with Multiple Contracts
Contract Inheritance
Operation Overloading

Instance Management

Using Per-Call Services
Using Per-Session Services
Using Singleton Services
Configuring Behaviors

Data Contracts

Implementing Data Contracts
Mapping Data Contracts to XSD Schema
Serialization
Arrays and Generic Collections
Enums
Versioning Data Contracts

More about Service Contracts

Versioning Service Contracts
Implementing Message Exchange Patterns
Oneway Contracts
Duplex Contracts
Asynchronous Proxies

Handling Errors

Faults and Exceptions
Generating and Handling Faults
Fault Contracts
Faults and Sessions

WCF Security

Security Aspects of Services
Transport Security
Message Security
Certificates
Credentials

Conclusion

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