WCF 4 Contracts, Behaviors, and Data Management Using Visual Basic 2010

Overview/Description
This course shows how to create and optimize .NET Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts according to the requirements of a WCF application. It details the roles of channels and how to choose an appropriate binding for an application. It also covers how to implement different data serialization and encoding options and shows how to use service, operation, and custom behaviors to manage and optimize a WCF application. This course is one of a series in the SkillSoft learning path that covers the objectives for the Microsoft Technology Specialist: Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 exam (70-513).

Target Audience
All organizations or individual consultants who are using or intend to use the .NET Framework 4 with Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Basic 2010 to develop Windows Communication Foundation applications; corporate employees, consultants, and university or college students who are preparing for the associated Microsoft Technology Specialist: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 exam (70-513).

Prerequisites
Experience in developing .NET 3.5 or .NET 4 applications with Visual Basic; knowledge of .NET distributed technologies, particularly XML Web Services

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

WCF 4 Contracts, Behaviors, and Data Management Using Visual Basic 2010

implement event-based asynchronous pattern for a client and a service

implement one-way operations and a duplex contract

manage multiple contracts and endpoints, and modify WSDL names

create data contracts

implement typed message contracts

implement untyped message contracts

code an asynchronous WCF client

define a class hierarchy

define a typed message contract

recognize how channels work in WCF

specify bindings in WCF

use the XML Serializer to serialize data

use MTOM encoding to transmit large amounts of data over a network

select the appropriate binding for given scenarios

use the XMLSerializer class to serialize data

use MTOM to stream large amounts of data over a network

implement WCF service behaviors

implement a transaction

implement a message inspector with a custom behavior

configure service behaviors

configure a transaction

configure a message inspector with a custom behavior

work with WCF contracts, behaviors, and data management