Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's new framework for building distributed systems. It unifies and builds on the diverse set of existing distribution mechanisms, which include ASP.NET Web services and .NET Remoting. WCF enables developers to produce highly configurable, secure, reliable and transactional services using a single simplified programming model. And since WCF supports the WS-* series of Web service standards, it enables simple interoperation with other platforms and technologies. This course covers the essentials of the technology and includes a large number of working examples and lab exercises.
The course uses .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. An earlier version of the course uses Visual Studio 2005 and is still available.
This course is designed for experienced application developers and architects responsible for developoing distributed enterprise applications in a Microsoft environment.
Students should have a good working knowledge of building .NET applications with C#. Knowledge of building distributed systems and Web services will also be an advantage.
This is a hands-on course. We apply a powerful learning cycle of short lecture, examples and labs on each topic. Each student gets lab code, the entire course content printed out (organized in a ring binder) as well as laminated reference sheets.
Three days, 8:30 AM-4:15 PM; typically ends by 2:30 PM on Wednesday.
$2,370 / person