Windows Communication Foundation Stipe Ivan Latković

Me, myself and I FESB PhD Service-oriented online monitor DUMP Interests SOA OOAD etc.

How we got here

A unified programming model

The challenge...to radically simplify distributed application development

The response

WCF vs ASMX

Clients and services

SOAP message

Endpoints ClientService Where?How?What?

Bindings Protocol, reliability, encoding, security,...

Out of the box bindings BasicHttpBinding WSHttpBinding WS2007HttpBinding WSDualHttpBinding WSFederationHttp Binding WS2007FederationHttp Binding NetTcpBinding NetNamedPipeBinding NetMsmqBinding NetPeerTcpBinding WebHttpBinding MsmqIntegrationBinding

Address net.tcp://localhost:50000/MyService net.pipe://localhost/MyPipe net.msmq://localhost/MyService

Contracts

Message exchange patterns One-wayRequest-replyDuplex

Metadata exchange

Security Claims based end-to-end security X509, Username/Password, Kerberos, custom credentials... Message security Confidentiality and integrity Transport or message level Access to resources Authentication and authorization

Reliability and transactions End-to-end reliable messaging In-order guarantees Exactly once guarantees Transactions Guaranteed atomic success or failure across boundaries

Hosting IIS6 HTTP only WAS (Windows Activation Service) Can use any transport Supported in IIS7 Self hosting Can use any transport Console & WPF apps, Windows services, etc.

WCF tools WCF Configuration Editor WCF Service Host WCF Test Client SvcUtil SvcTraceViewer

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