Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

This 5-day instructor-led course provides the knowledge and skills required by .NET developers for building the next generation of distributed applications by using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF (previously codenamed "Indigo") is Microsoft's new unified framework for building distributed applications. With WCF, you can build secure, reliable, transacted Web services applications that interoperate with existing .NET technologies. In this course you will first learn about the WCF architecture and the components used to build WCF distributed applications. Then you will get hands-on experience in building applications that use the security, transactional, and reliability mechanisms that are built-in to the WCF platform. Training content will include instructor-led presentation materials, classroom demonstrations, hands-on labs, and a student workbook containing notes and links to additional online references.

This course will help you prepare for the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Windows Communication Foundation Exam #70-503 (avail 11/07). 

At course completion students will be able to:

• Describe the WCF architecture
• Identify WCF components
• Design WCF operation and data contracts
• Configure channels and bindings
• Define message structures
• Expose and interrogate service metadata
• Serialize and encode messages
• Identify and configure behaviors
• Identify and implement hosting options
• Develop an end-to-end transactional application
• Implement reliable messaging
• Use queues as messaging option
• Extend WCF functionality using custom channels and behaviors
• Develop a peer-to-peer application
• Manage a WCF application using Perfmon and WMI
• Design and Implement WCF services
• Create and Configure WCF Service endpoints
• Monitor WCF Events and WCF Traces
• Create and Configure WCF Service Proxies
• Use Datagram, Request/Reply and Duplex Communication Patterns with WCF Services
• Extend WCF with custom behaviors