Programming WCF Services, 2nd Edition

Building Service Oriented Applications with Windows Communication Foundation

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Building Service Oriented Applications with Windows Communication Foundation

By Juval Lowy

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Released: November 2008

Pages: 784

Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling introduction to Microsoft's unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Hailed as the most definitive treatment of WCF available, this relentlessly practical book provides insight, not documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications that are maintainable, extensible, and reusable.

Author Juval Lowy, Microsoft software legend and participant in WCF's original strategic design review, revised this new edition for the latest productivity-enhancing features of C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 SP1 Framework. The book also contains Lowy's ServiceModelEx, a framework of useful utilities, tools, and helper classes that let you simplify and automate many tasks, and extend WCF as well. With this book, you will:

Learn about WCF architecture and essential building blocks, including key concepts such as reliability and transport session
Use built-in features such as service hosting, instance management, concurrency management, transactions, disconnected queued calls, and security
Take advantage of relevant design options, tips, and best practices in Lowy's ServiceModelEx framework to increase your productivity and the quality of your WCF services
Learn the rationale behind particular design decisions, and discover poorly documented and little-understood aspects of SOA development

By teaching you the "why" along with the "how" of WCF programming, Programming WCF Services not only will help you master WCF, it will enable you to become a better software engineer.

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
Chapter 2 Service Contracts
1. Operation Overloading
2. Contract Inheritance
3. Service Contract Factoring and Design
4. Contract Queries
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
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
Chapter 5 Operations
1. Request-Reply Operations
2. One-Way Operations
3. Callback Operations
4. Events
5. Streaming
Chapter 6 Faults
1. Error Isolation and Decoupling
2. Fault Propagation
3. Error-Handling Extensions
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
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
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
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

Appendix Introduction to Service-Orientation
1. A Brief History of Software Engineering
2. Service-Orientation
3. Tenets and Principles
4. What's Next?
Appendix Headers and Contexts
1. Message Headers
2. Context Bindings
Appendix Publish-Subscribe Service
1. The Publish-Subscribe Design Pattern
2. The Publish-Subscribe Framework
Appendix Code-Access Security
1. Code-Access Support in .NET 3.5
2. Partially Trusted Clients
3. Partially Trusted Services
4. Partially Trusted Hosts
Appendix Generic Interceptor
1. Intercepting Service Operations
2. Intercepting Client Calls
3. The Trace Interceptors
4. Identity Stack Propagation
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
Appendix ServiceModelEx Catalog
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Programming WCF Services, 2nd Edition

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I was trying to learn WCF for a few months. I was looking for a book that could provides me the detail of WCF framework from ground up, then I would move to WCF advance later - well might be from other book. I picked this book based on recommendation from my co-workers. I also owned "Pro WCF" from Apress publisher. This book has turned into great resource for me. It covered every detail of WCF from the basic concept of service contracts, hosting, addresses, and binding to higher level such as concurrency, or security. The author provided a lots of examples in depth explanations. It was great guide for WCF starter and good resource for advance programmer. It was much better than "Pro WCF"

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I have read WCF concepts from other books and from MSDN before, but they all seemed more like documentation rather than well knit set of concepts. This book nicely dwells into the philosophy of Service Oriented Applications, from the standpoint of WCF.

I started reading the book by first reading the Appendix about "Introduction to Service Orientation". The Appendix really built foundation for everything that was to come by starting with assembly programming and leading up to component oriented programming using COM, and laying the foundation for the need for SOA. This was followed by explanation of how WCF is a great platform for building SOA.

Book starts with good introduction to the basic concepts like Service Execution Boundaries, Addresses, Contracts, Hosting, Bindings, Endpoints and WCF Architecture. The following chapters cover Contracts and Instance Management in a great detail.

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Chapter 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

Transport-Level Sessions

Reliability

Chapter 2 Service Contracts

Operation Overloading

Contract Inheritance

Service Contract Factoring and Design

Contract Queries

Chapter 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

Chapter 4 Instance Management

Behaviors

Per-Call Services

Per-Session Services

Singleton Service

Demarcating Operations

Instance Deactivation

Durable Services

Throttling

Chapter 5 Operations

Request-Reply Operations

One-Way Operations

Callback Operations

Events

Streaming

Chapter 6 Faults

Error Isolation and Decoupling

Fault Propagation

Error-Handling Extensions

Chapter 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

Chapter 8 Concurrency Management

Instance Management and Concurrency

Service Concurrency Modes

Instances and Concurrent Access

Resources and Services

Resource Synchronization Context

Service Synchronization Context

Custom Service Synchronization Contexts

Callbacks and Client Safety

Callbacks and Synchronization Contexts

Asynchronous Calls

Chapter 9 Queued Services

Disconnected Services and Clients

Queued Calls

Transactions

Instance Management

Concurrency Management

Delivery Failures

Playback Failures