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
Product 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
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
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
Product 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
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