Programming WCF Services

Programming WCF Services By Juval Löwy
First Edition February 2007
Pages: 634
ISBN 10: 0-596-52699-7
ISBN 13: 9780596526993

Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, Programming WCF Services is the authoritative introduction to Microsoft's new, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Relentlessly practical, the book delivers insight, not documentation, to teach developers what they need to know to build the next generation of SOAs.




After explaining the advantages of service-orientation for application design and teaching the basics of how to develop SOAs using WCF, the book shows how you can take advantage of built-in features such as service hosting, instance management, asynchronous calls, synchronization, reliability, transaction management, disconnected queued calls and security to build best in class applications. Programming WCF Services focuses on the rationale behind particular design decisions, often shedding light on poorly-documented and little-understood aspects of SOA development. Developers and architects will learn not only the "how" of WCF programming, but also relevant design guidelines, best practices, and pitfalls. Original techniques and utilities provided by the author throughout the book go well beyond anything that can be found in conventional sources.



Table of Contents

Foreword 
Preface 
1. WCF Essentials

      What Is WCF?

      Services

      Addresses

      Contracts

      Hosting

      Bindings

      Endpoints

      Metadata Exchange

      Client-Side Programming

      Programmatic Versus Administrative Configuration

      WCF Architecture

      Working with Channels

      Reliability
2. Service Contracts

      Operation Overloading

      Contract Inheritance

      Service Contracts Factoring and Design

      Contract Queries
3. Data Contracts

      Serialization

      Data Contract Attributes

      Data Contract Hierarchy

      Data Contract Equivalence

      Versioning

      Enumerations

      Delegates and Data Contracts

      Data Sets and Tables

      Generics

      Collections
4. Instance Management

      Behaviors

      Per-Call Services

      Per-Session Services

      Singleton Service

      Demarcating Operations

      Instance Deactivation

      Throttling
5. Operations

      Request-Reply Operations

      One-Way Operations

      Callback Operations

      Events

      Streaming
6. Faults

      Errors and Exceptions

      Fault Contracts

      Error-Handling Extensions
7. Transactions

      The Recovery Challenge

      Transactions

      Transaction Propagation

      Transaction Protocols and Managers

      The Transaction Class

      Transactional Service Programming

      Explicit Transaction Programming

      Service State Management

      Instance Management and Transactions

      Callbacks
8. Concurrency Management

      Instance Management and Concurrency

      Service Concurrency Mode

      Instances and Concurrent Access

      Resources and Services

      Resource Synchronization Context

      Service Synchronization Context

      Custom Service Synchronization Context

      Callbacks and Client Safety

      Callbacks and Synchronization Context

      Asynchronous Calls
9. Queued Services

      Disconnected Services and Clients

      Queued Calls

      Transactions

      Instance Management

      Concurrency Management

      Delivery Failures

      Playback Failures

      Queued Versus Connected Calls

      Response Service

      HTTP Bridge
10. Security

      Authentication

      Authorization

      Transfer Security

      Identity Management

      Overall Policy

      Scenario-Driven Approach

      Intranet Application

      Internet Application

      Business-to-Business Application

      Anonymous Application

      No Security

      Scenarios Summary

      Declarative Security Framework

      Security Auditing
A. Introduction to Service-Orientation
B. Publish-Subscribe Service
C. WCF Coding Standard
Index 

Sample Chapter: Chapter 1: WCF Essentials (PDF Format)

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