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Programming WCF Services, Second Edition

Building Service Oriented Applications with Windows Communication Foundation

By
Juval Lowy
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
November 2008
Pages:
784
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Product Editions

  1. Programming WCF Services, Second Edition - November 2008
  2. Programming WCF Services - February 2007
Description
Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling introduction to Microsoft's unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. This relentlessly practical book provides insight, not documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications. Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, this new edition is revised for the latest productivity-enhancing features of C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 SP1 Framework.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 WCF Essentials

    1. What Is WCF?

    2. Services

    3. Addresses

    4. Contracts

    5. Hosting

    6. Bindings

    7. Endpoints

    8. Metadata Exchange

    9. Client-Side Programming

    10. Programmatic Versus Administrative Configuration

    11. WCF Architecture

    12. Working with Channels

    13. Transport-Level Sessions

    14. Reliability

  2. Chapter 2 Service Contracts

    1. Operation Overloading

    2. Contract Inheritance

    3. Service Contract Factoring and Design

    4. Contract Queries

  3. Chapter 3 Data Contracts

    1. Serialization

    2. Data Contract Attributes

    3. Data Contract Hierarchy

    4. Data Contract Equivalence

    5. Versioning

    6. Enumerations

    7. Delegates and Data Contracts

    8. Data Sets and Tables

    9. Generics

    10. Collections

  4. Chapter 4 Instance Management

    1. Behaviors

    2. Per-Call Services

    3. Per-Session Services

    4. Singleton Service

    5. Demarcating Operations

    6. Instance Deactivation

    7. Durable Services

    8. Throttling

  5. Chapter 5 Operations

    1. Request-Reply Operations

    2. One-Way Operations

    3. Callback Operations

    4. Events

    5. Streaming

  6. Chapter 6 Faults

    1. Error Isolation and Decoupling

    2. Fault Propagation

    3. Error-Handling Extensions

  7. Chapter 7 Transactions

    1. The Recovery Challenge

    2. Transactions

    3. Transaction Propagation

    4. Transaction Protocols and Managers

    5. The Transaction Class

    6. Transactional Service Programming

    7. Explicit Transaction Programming

    8. Service State Management

    9. Instance Management and Transactions

    10. Callbacks

  8. Chapter 8 Concurrency Management

    1. Instance Management and Concurrency

    2. Service Concurrency Modes

    3. Instances and Concurrent Access

    4. Resources and Services

    5. Resource Synchronization Context

    6. Service Synchronization Context

    7. Custom Service Synchronization Contexts

    8. Callbacks and Client Safety

    9. Callbacks and Synchronization Contexts

    10. Asynchronous Calls

  9. Chapter 9 Queued Services

    1. Disconnected Services and Clients

    2. Queued Calls

    3. Transactions

    4. Instance Management

    5. Concurrency Management

    6. Delivery Failures

    7. Playback Failures

    8. Queued Versus Connected Calls

    9. The Response Service

    10. The HTTP Bridge

  10. Chapter 10 Security

    1. Authentication

    2. Authorization

    3. Transfer Security

    4. Identity Management

    5. Overall Policy

    6. Scenario-Driven Approach

    7. Intranet Application Scenario

    8. Internet Application Scenario

    9. Business-to-Business Application Scenario

    10. Anonymous Application Scenario

    11. No Security Scenario

    12. Scenarios Summary

    13. Declarative Security Framework

    14. Security Auditing

  1. Appendix Introduction to Service-Orientation

    1. A Brief History of Software Engineering

    2. Service-Orientation

    3. Tenets and Principles

    4. What's Next?

  2. Appendix Headers and Contexts

    1. Message Headers

    2. Context Bindings

  3. Appendix Publish-Subscribe Service

    1. The Publish-Subscribe Design Pattern

    2. The Publish-Subscribe Framework

  4. Appendix Code-Access Security

    1. Code-Access Support in .NET 3.5

    2. Partially Trusted Clients

    3. Partially Trusted Services

    4. Partially Trusted Hosts

  5. Appendix Generic Interceptor

    1. Intercepting Service Operations

    2. Intercepting Client Calls

    3. The Trace Interceptors

    4. Identity Stack Propagation

  6. Appendix WCF Coding Standard

    1. General Design Guidelines

    2. Essentials

    3. Service Contracts

    4. Data Contracts

    5. Instance Management

    6. Operations and Calls

    7. Faults

    8. Transactions

    9. Concurrency Management

    10. Queued Services

    11. Security

  7. Appendix ServiceModelEx Catalog

  8. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
Programming WCF Services, Second Edition
By:
Juval Lowy
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
November 2008
Ebook Release:
November 2008
Pages:
784
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-52130-1
| ISBN 10:
0-596-52130-8
Ebook ISBN:
978-0-596-15642-8
| ISBN 10:
0-596-15642-1
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About the Author

  1. Juval Lowy

    Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign, a company specializing in .NET architecture consulting and advanced .NET training. Juval is Microsoft's Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET. Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval published numerous articles, regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world's top .NET experts and industry leaders. Contact him at www.idesign.net

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