WCF is NOT dead! Got your attention? It’s important to get that out of the way because in today’s world, the lack of discussion of a technology is often misinterpreted as the death of a technology. The artist formerly known as Indigo (WCF) has been generally available since Visual Studio 2005 and is still the best platform for writing service or messaging-based systems on the Microsoft platform. What about Web API, you ask? WCF and Web API are drastically different platforms with different goals and purposes. WCF offers the richest and most robust programming model for exposing services with characteristics and capabilities not available in any other messaging technology. Capabilities like state-management, callback eventing, and transaction handling. In this course, I’ll teach you WCF from beginning to end. You’re getting absolutely everything you will need to get the job done in a service oriented environment and to take advantage of all the richness the WCF platform has to offer. Nothing will be left to chance here so come to learn to do it right, and see how easy it can truly be.
Author Name: Sander Mak
Author Description:
Sander is Director of Technology at Picnic —the Dutch online grocery scale-up— building Java-based systems at scale. He also is a Java Champion and author of the O’Reilly book ‘Java 9 Modularity’ (see javamodularity.com). As an avid conference speaker, Sander loves sharing knowledge, also through his blog at http://branchandbound.net and as Pluralsight instructor.

Table of Contents

• Welcome and Course Description
  15mins
• Service Orientation and WCF
  29mins
• Contracts and Services
  43mins
• Hosting and Service Configuration
  44mins
• Proxies and Client Configuration
  58mins
• In-Process and Threading
  24mins
• Bindings and Behaviors
  60mins
• Metadata Exchange
  23mins
• Instancing and Concurrency
  63mins
• Faults and Exceptions
  23mins
• Transaction Handling
  39mins
• Operations
  65mins
• Securing Services
  96mins
• Patterns of Implementation
  37mins