Dedication
Foreword
Preface
How This Book Is Organized
Some Assumptions About the Reader
What You Need to Use This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
How to Contact O’Reilly
Safari® Books Online
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: WCF Essentials
1.1 What Is WCF?
1.2 Services
1.3 Addresses
1.4 Contracts
1.5 Hosting
1.6 Bindings
1.7 Endpoints
1.8 Metadata Exchange
1.9 More on Behavior Configuration
1.10 Client-Side Programming
1.11 Programmatic Versus Administrative Configuration
1.12 WCF Architecture
1.13 Working with Channels
1.14 Transport-Level Sessions
1.15 Reliability

Chapter 2: Service Contracts
2.1 Operation Overloading
2.2 Contract Inheritance
2.3 Service Contract Factoring and Design
2.4 Contract Queries

Chapter 3: Data Contracts
3.1 Serialization
3.2 Data Contract Attributes
3.3 Data Contract Hierarchy
3.4 Data Contract Equivalence
3.5 Versioning
3.6 Enumerations
3.7 Delegates and Data Contracts
3.8 Generics
3.9 Collections

Chapter 4: Instance Management
4.1 Behaviors
4.2 Per-Call Services
4.3 Per-Session Services
4.4 Singleton Service
4.5 Demarcating Operations
4.6 Instance Deactivation
4.7 Durable Services
4.8 Throttling

Chapter 5: Operations
5.1 Request-Reply Operations
5.2 One-Way Operations
5.3 Callback Operations
5.4 Events
5.5 Streaming

Chapter 6: Faults
6.1 Error Isolation and Decoupling
6.2 Fault Propagation
6.3 Error-Handling Extensions

Chapter 7: Transactions
7.1 The Recovery Challenge
7.2 Transactions
7.3 Transaction Propagation
7.4 Transaction Protocols and Managers
7.5 The Transaction Class
7.6 Transactional Service Programming
7.7 Explicit Transaction Programming
7.8 Service State Management
7.9 Instance Management and Transactions
7.10 Callbacks

Chapter 8: Concurrency Management
8.1 Instance Management and Concurrency
8.2 Service Concurrency Modes
8.3 Instances and Concurrent Access
8.4 Resources and Services
8.5 Resource Synchronization Context
8.6 Service Synchronization Context
8.7 Custom Service Synchronization Contexts
8.8 Callbacks and Client Safety
8.9 Callbacks and Synchronization Contexts
8.10 Asynchronous Calls

Chapter 9: Queued Services
9.1 Disconnected Services and Clients
9.2 Queued Calls
9.3 Transactions
9.4 Instance Management
9.5 Concurrency Management
9.6 Delivery Failures
9.7 Playback Failures
9.8 Queued Versus Connected Calls
9.9 The Response Service
9.10 The HTTP Bridge

Chapter 10: Security
10.1 Authentication
10.2 Authorization
10.3 Transfer Security
10.4 Identity Management
10.5 Overall Policy
10.6 Scenario-Driven Approach
10.7 Intranet Application Scenario
10.8 Internet Application Scenario
10.9 Business-to-Business Application Scenario
10.10 Anonymous Application Scenario
10.11 No Security Scenario
10.12 Scenarios Summary
10.13 Declarative Security Framework
10.14 Security Auditing

Chapter 11: The Service Bus
11.1 What Is a Relay Service?
11.2 Programming the Service Bus
11.3 The Service Bus Bindings
11.4 Cloud as Interceptor
11.5 Service Bus Buffers
11.6 Service Bus Authentication
11.7 Transfer Security

Introduction to Service Orientation
A Brief History of Software Engineering
Service Orientation
Tenets and Principles
What’s Next?
Headers and Contexts
Message Headers
Context Bindings
Discovery
Address Discovery
Announcements
Service Bus Discovery
Publish-Subscribe Service
The Publish-Subscribe Design Pattern
The Publish-Subscribe Framework
Publish-Subscribe with the Service Bus
Publish-Subscribe with Discovery
Generic Interceptor
Intercepting Service Operations
Intercepting Client Calls
The Trace Interceptors
Identity Stack Propagation
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
ServiceModelEx Catalog
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