Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a technology for developing applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). WCF is implemented using a set of classes placed on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). It addresses the problem of interoperability using .NET for distributed applications.

• Training by Realtime Expert trainer
• Live Online Classes
• Free study material
• Online virtual Classes available in morning, evening and weekend

Prerequisties

• Should have a good working knowledge of building .NET applications with VB.NET. Prior knowledge of building .NET web services .

Duration

Online

• The format is 40% theory, 60% Hands-on.
• It is a 20 days program and extends up to 2hrs each.

Corporate

• The format is 40% theory, 60% Hands-on.
• It is a 5 days program and extends up to 8hrs each.

Classroom

• Private Classroom arrenged on request and minimum attendies for batch is 4.

Course Content

WCF Essentials

• What is WCF?
• Address, Binding and Contract
• WCF Services and Clients
• WCF Service Libraries
• WCF Test Host and Test Client
• Self-Hosting
• WCF Clients
• Channel Factories
• Creating Proxies
• Configuration Files
• Configuration Improvements in VS 2012/2013
• Metadata
• Standard Endpoints
• WCF Architecture

Addresses and Bindings

• Addresses
• Bindings
• Message Exchange Patterns
• Configuring Bindings
• Interoperating with ASMX Web Services
• Default Endpoints and Bindings
• Service Descriptions
• Multiple Endpoints
• New UDP Binding
• New Message Compression Options

Service Contracts

• Defining Service Contracts
• Defining Operation Contracts
• Services with Multiple Contracts
• Contract Inheritance
• Operation Overloading

Instance Management

• Using Per-Call Services
• Using Per-Session Services
• Using Singleton Services
• Configuring Behaviors
• New Async Proxy Methods

Data Contracts

• Implementing Data Contracts
• Mapping Data Contracts to XSD Schema
• Serialization
• Arrays and Generic Collections
• Enums
• Versioning Data Contracts

More about Service Contracts

• Versioning Service Contracts
• Implementing Message Exchange Patterns
• One-way Contracts
• Duplex Contracts
• Asynchronous Proxies

Handling Errors

• Faults and Exceptions
• Generating and Handling Faults
• Fault Contracts
• Faults and Sessions

WCF Security

• Security Aspects of Services
• Transport Security
• Message Security
• Certificates
• Credentials

Web API

• Overview
• Web API vs. WCF
• Web API vs. ASP.NET MVC