Windows Communication Foundation: Top to Bottom
Overview (Level 100)
72 minutes - July 02, 2007
In this first webcast in our 15-part series, we introduce you to WCF as a technology for service-orientated architecture (SOA), discuss the programming model, and provide a short overview of core features that will be discussed in subsequent webcasts. Contracts (Level 200)
73 minutes - July 09, 2007
In this webcast, we provide practical guidance for designing service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts—showing you when and how to employ each.
Contract Versioning (Level 200)
71 minutes - July 11, 2007
In this webcast, we focus on approaches to version tolerance and contract versioning. We provide guidelines for strict and non-strict approaches to contract versioning, describe how to design service contracts and data contracts to be version tolerant, and illustrate how to handle explicit versioning of service contracts and data contracts with the least impact to business components that support your services. Exceptions and Faults (Level 200)
69 minutes - July 13, 2007
In this webcast, we provide an introduction to SOAP faults and their relationship to service metadata, since they are the standard for propagating exceptions from services.
Bindings (Level 200)
72 minutes - July 23, 2007
In this webcast, we explain how binding configuration builds the communication channel, introduce you to each of the standard bindings, and explain the core protocols and features provided by each of these bindings. Hosting (Level 200)
69 minutes - July 25, 2007
In this webcast, we describe the desired features of a hosting environment and the fundamentals of WCF service hosting.
Messaging Patterns (Level 200)
74 minutes - August 10, 2007
In this webcast, we discuss a variety of messaging patterns and describe how they satisfy different deployment and communication requirements for your services. Instancing Modes (Level 200)
68 minutes - August 13, 2007
In this webcast, we explore PerCall, PerSession, and Single instancing modes, explain call and lifetime semantics for each, and illustrate the scenarios in which they are best applied.
Concurrency, Throughput, and Throttling (Level 200)
82 minutes - August 15, 2007
In this webcast, we explore the features Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides for managing concurrent access and throttling access to services. Security Fundamentals (Level 200)
76 minutes - August 24, 2007
In this webcast, we start with the security basics: authentication, authorization, the difference between single hop and message-level security, and how to apply digital signatures and encryption.
Federated Security (Level 200)
79 minutes - August 27, 2007
In this webcast, we show you how to build a claims-based security model using custom authorization policies, permissions, and attributes. Reliable Messaging (Level 200)
72 minutes - August 29, 2007
In this webcast, we introduce you to reliable sessions, a binding feature in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that provides assurance at the message level using WS-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM).
Transactions (Level 200)
70 minutes - September 04, 2007
In this webcast, we show you how to configure the Distributed Transaction Control (DTC) to support WS-AT, and we explain how to configure your WCF clients and services to support transactions over any protocol. Message Queuing (Level 200)
67 minutes - September 04, 2007
In this webcast, we show you how to expose Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services over Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), demonstrate practical scenarios where queued services can be helpful, and explain various configuration settings for NetMsmqBinding and their implications on system reliability and security.
Extensibility (Level 200)
70 minutes - September 07, 2007
As rich in features as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is, you can make it even richer by hooking into the many points of extensibility provided by the service model.