| Drawing on extensive experience working with early adopters, three Microsoft insiders systematically address the topics developers ask about WCF. The authors approach each subject with practical advice and present best practices, tips, and tricks for solving problems. Throughout, you'll find detailed explanations, solutions for the pain points of WCF development, and an extensive collection of reusable code examples.
Coverage includes:
- Using WCF contracts to define complex structures & interfaces;
- Understanding WCF's channel stacks & channel model architecture;
- Configuring the WCF communication stack to use only the protocols you need;
- Using standard & custom service behaviors to manage concurrency, instances, transactions, & more;
- Serializing data from .NET types to XML Infosets and representing Infosets 'on the wire';
- Hosting WCF services via IIS, managed .NET applications, and Windows Activation Services;
- WCF security, in depth: authentication; transport & message-level security; and Internet & intranet scenarios;
- Improving reliability: exception handling, diagnostics, and more;
- Workflow services: new integration points between WCF 3.5 & Windows Workflow Foundation;
- Building client-to-client, peer network-based applications;
- Utilizing WCF for non-SOAP Web services: AJAX & JSON examples and .NET 3.5 hosting classes. | |
