In this course, you will learn how to use Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and you will see how it is a unified programming model for building service-oriented distributed applications. You will see how to build, host and call WCF services and you will gain a deep understanding of the basic building blocks of WCF, including endpoints, bindings and contracts. In addition, see how to handle exceptions, maintain state between calls to a service and use transactions. Subsequent topics include and basics of WCF security, integrating WCF with Windows Workflow Foundation and building WCF services that support Representational State Transfer (REST) and syndication. By the time you have completed the course, you will have a good understanding of how to build and use WCF services in your distributed applications.

Build and call WCF services.
Host WCF services using Web servers and managed applications.
Configure service endpoints in code and in configuration files.
Use the WCF-supplied bindings as well as create custom bindings.
Manage service and data contracts.
Handle exceptions in WCF services.
Monitor and diagnose WCF services at runtime.
Implement three different message exchange patterns.
Maintain state in WCF services.
Add transactions support to a WCF services.
Authenticate callers of a service and restrict their access based on roles.
Expose a workflow as a WCF service and call a WCF service from within a workflow.
Build WCF services that support REST.
Build WCF services that generate RSS and Atom feeds.

Prerequisites: This course is designed for individuals with an intermediate knowledge of Visual C#, of building Windows and Console applications using Visual Studio 2008, and a familiarity with building and calling Web Services. You should also have a strong programming background.