Programming WCF Services, 3rd Edition

Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus

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Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus

By Juval Lowy

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Released: August 2010

Pages: 912

Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft's unified platform for developing modern service-oriented applications on Windows. Hailed as the definitive treatment of WCF, this book provides unique insight, rather than documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications that are maintainable, extensible, and reusable.

Author Juval Löwy -- one of the world's top .NET experts -- revised this edition to include the newest productivity-enhancing features of .NET Framework 4 and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus, as well as the latest WCF ideas and techniques. By teaching you the why and the how of WCF programming, Programming WCF Services will help you master WCF and make you a better software engineer.

Learn about WCF architecture and essential building blocks, including key concepts such as reliability and transport sessions
Use built-in features such as service hosting, instance and concurrency management, transactions, disconnected queued calls, security, and discovery
Master the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, the most revolutionary piece of the new cloud computing initiative
Increase your productivity and the quality of your WCF services by taking advantage of relevant design options, tips, and best practices in Löwy's ServiceModelEx framework
Discover the rationale behind particular design decisions, and delve into rarely understood aspects of WCF development

"If you choose to learn WCF, you've chosen well. If you choose to learn with the resource and guidance of Juval Löwy, you've done even better... there are few people alive today who know WCF as well."

--Ron Jacobs, Senior Technical Evangelist for WCF, Microsoft Corporation

Chapter 1 WCF Essentials
1. What Is WCF?
2. Services
3. Addresses
4. Contracts
5. Hosting
6. Bindings
7. Endpoints
8. Metadata Exchange
9. More on Behavior Configuration
10. Client-Side Programming
11. Programmatic Versus Administrative Configuration
12. WCF Architecture
13. Working with Channels
14. Transport-Level Sessions
15. 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. Generics
9. 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
Chapter 11 The Service Bus
1. What Is a Relay Service?
2. Programming the Service Bus
3. The Service Bus Bindings
4. Cloud as Interceptor
5. Service Bus Buffers
6. Service Bus Authentication
7. Transfer Security

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 Discovery
1. Address Discovery
2. Announcements
3. Service Bus Discovery
Appendix Publish-Subscribe Service
1. The Publish-Subscribe Design Pattern
2. The Publish-Subscribe Framework
3. Publish-Subscribe with the Service Bus
4. Publish-Subscribe with Discovery
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
12. The Service Bus
Appendix ServiceModelEx Catalog
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Programming WCF Services, 3rd Edition

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Chapter 1 WCF Essentials

What Is WCF?

Services

Addresses

Contracts

Hosting

Bindings

Endpoints

Metadata Exchange

More on Behavior Configuration

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

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