Introduction

This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to build and configure a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) solution.

Pre-Requisites

Before attending this course, students should have intermediate experience of developing applications by using previous versions of Microsoft Visual Studio development system at level 200.

Outcomes

After completing this course, students will gain the skills to:

• Build a simple WCF service and client.
• Create and configure a service as a managed application and select an appropriate hosting option.
• Expose a WCF service over different endpoints and add run-time functionality by using behaviors.
• Improve debugging capabilities by examining messages and service activity.
• Define service, operation, and data contracts to meet application requirements.
• Add error handling to a WCF application.
• Address service quality issues such as performance, availability, concurrency, and instance management.
• Implement security in a WCF application.
• Protect data integrity through correct use of transactions.