Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus

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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

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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 ABrief 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 Colophon