Programming WCF Services

Description

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.

Based on experience and insight gained while taking part in the strategic design of WCF and working with the team that implemented it, Programming WCF Services provides experienced working professionals with the definitive work on WCF. Not only will this book make you a WCF expert, it will make you a better software engineer. It's the Rosetta Stone of WCF.

 

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