WCF Videos

Windows Communication Foundation:" Hello World"

The Windows Communication Foundation is a new framework for building distributed applications. In this session we'll take a look at the basics of getting an application up and running

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Windows Communication Foundation: Type Serialization

The WCF offers a number of different serialization technologies for turning .NET object types into XML for transmission across service boundaries. This session explores what's available.

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Windows Communication Foundation: DataContract Serialization

The DataContract is the standard mechanism in the WCF for serializing .NET object types into XML. This session looks at the various options that DataContract makes available.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Typed and Untyped Messages

The WCF has a lot of flexibility in the way in which it goes from .NET objects to SOAP messages. It can handle parameters and typed/untyped messages. Let's take a look.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Bindings

A great deal of power and flexibility comes from the use of bindings in the WCF to specify communication details. Here we explore a little of the standard bindings and how we can configure them.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Message Encoding

The WCF offers a flexible choice of mechanisms for turning a SOAP message into something that we can transmit between services. In this session we'll look at the options.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Message Patterns

And you thought service communication was just request and response? This session looks at how we can use the WCF for one way and two way message exchanges.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Sessions

The WCF has facilities for maintaining a session of messages between a client and a service. In this session we'll take a look at how we can make use of those facilities.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Instancing

WCF services can be singletons, they can be single-call objects or they can have a lifetime that is tied to the session. Let's dive into how we make this work.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Concurrency

In an server side development, concurrency always crops up and the WCF is no exception. Here we explore the options for single and multi-threaded services.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Exceptions

Every piece of code needs to think about how to deal with exceptions - the WCF has particular mechanisms for translating .NET exceptions into SOAP faults which we explore here.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Transactions

The WCF has facilities for coordinating work done by multiple pieces of software under a single atomic transaction. In this session we'll look at getting that set up and working.

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Windows Communication Foundation: HTTPS Transport Security

The WCF provides transfer security for messages either by relying on the transport or by using message level mechanisms. In this session we'll look at using HTTPS at the transport layer to provide integrity, privacy and authentication for messages in transit.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Message Security

The WCF provides transfer security for messages either by relying on the transport or by using message level mechanisms. In this session we'll look at using message security in order to perform authentication and provide privacy and integrity for messages.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Authorisation

In this session we'll look at some basic mechanisms for authorising access to service operations that the WCF offers.

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Windows Communication Foundation: Auditing

The WCF has facilities for auditing message authentication operations and service authorisation operations. In this session we'll look at how we can configure those facilities.

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