Programming Wcf Services  (English, Paperback, Lowy Juval)

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

About the Author
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign, specializing in .NET architecture consulting and advanced training. Juval is Microsoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET 4.0. He participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval has published numerous articles, regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend, one of the world's top .NET experts and industry leaders.

Table of Contents
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
• Queued Versus Connected Calls
• The Response Service
• The HTTP Bridge

Chapter 10 Security

• Authentication
• Authorization
• Transfer Security
• Identity Management
• Overall Policy
• Scenario-Driven Approach
• Intranet Application Scenario
• Internet Application Scenario
• Business-to-Business Application Scenario
• Anonymous Application Scenario
• No Security Scenario
• Scenarios Summary
• Declarative Security Framework
• Security Auditing

Chapter 11 The Service Bus

• What Is a Relay Service?
• Programming the Service Bus
• The Service Bus Bindings
• Cloud as Interceptor
• Service Bus Buffers
• Service Bus Authentication
• Transfer Security

Appendix Introduction to Service Orientation

• A Brief History of Software Engineering
• Service Orientation
• Tenets and Principles
• What’s Next?

Appendix Headers and Contexts

• Message Headers
• Context Bindings

Appendix Discovery

• Address Discovery
• Announcements
• Service Bus Discovery

Appendix Publish-Subscribe Service

• The Publish-Subscribe Design Pattern
• The Publish-Subscribe Framework
• Publish-Subscribe with the Service Bus
• Publish-Subscribe with Discovery

Appendix Generic Interceptor

• Intercepting Service Operations
• Intercepting Client Calls
• The Trace Interceptors
• Identity Stack Propagation

Appendix WCF Coding Standard

• General Design Guidelines
• Essentials
• Service Contracts
• Data Contracts
• Instance Management
• Operations and Calls
• Faults
• Transactions
• Concurrency Management
• Queued Services
• Security
• The Service Bus

Appendix ServiceModelEx Catalog
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