Table of Contents

Foreword Preface 1. WCF Essentials What Is WCF? Services Addresses Contracts Hosting Bindings Endpoints Metadata Exchange Client-Side Programming Programmatic Versus Administrative Configuration WCF Architecture Working with Channels Reliability 2. Service Contracts Operation Overloading Contract Inheritance Service Contracts Factoring and Design Contract Queries 3. Data Contracts Serialization Data Contract Attributes Data Contract Hierarchy Data Contract Equivalence Versioning Enumerations Delegates and Data Contracts Data Sets and Tables Generics Collections 4. Instance Management Behaviors Per-Call Services Per-Session Services Singleton Service Demarcating Operations Instance Deactivation Throttling 5. Operations Request-Reply Operations One-Way Operations Callback Operations Events Streaming 6. Faults Errors and Exceptions Fault Contracts Error-Handling Extensions 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 8. Concurrency Management Instance Management and Concurrency Service Concurrency Mode Instances and Concurrent Access Resources and Services Resource Synchronization Context Service Synchronization Context Custom Service Synchronization Context Callbacks and Client Safety Callbacks and Synchronization Context Asynchronous Calls 9. Queued Services Disconnected Services and Clients Queued Calls Transactions Instance Management Concurrency Management Delivery Failures Playback Failures Queued Versus Connected Calls Response Service HTTP Bridge 10. Security Authentication Authorization Transfer Security Identity Management Overall Policy Scenario-Driven Approach Intranet Application Internet Application Business-to-Business Application Anonymous Application No Security Scenarios Summary Declarative Security Framework Security Auditing A. Introduction to Service-Orientation B. Publish-Subscribe Service C. WCF Coding Standard Index

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Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign, a company specializing in .NET architecture consulting and advanced .NET training. Juval is Microsoft's Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET. Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval 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 as one of the world's top .NET experts and industry leaders. Contact him at www.idesign.net