Windows Communication Foundation David Anderson Independent Software Developer DCOM Productions

What is WCF? Service-oriented communication Interoperable Metadata allows you to consume the service in code (C#/VB) Bindings and Endpoints Service Contracts, Operation Contracts, Data Members Configuration WCF Whitepaper on MSDN

WCF Bindings A binding describes the transport, protocol, and encoding BasicHttpBinding A binding that is suitable for communicating with WS-Basic Profile conformant Web services, for example, ASP.NET Web services (ASMX)- based services. This binding uses HTTP as the transport and text/XML as the default message encoding. WSHttpBinding WS2007HttpBinding NetTcpBinding NetNamedPipeBinding WebHttpBinding

WCF Endpoints Provides clients access to your WCF Service functionality Is a connectivity point Address, Binding, Contract

WCF Contracts Defines your actual WCF Service implementation Methods, Composite Types, Return Values

Routing Services The example for this presentation WCF Service Serves named connection strings Own authentication to avoid X509 Certificates Unit Testing

Consuming Routing Services The example for this presentation WCF Client Referencing the service Using the service Unit Testing Dependencies, and removing them