Programming WCF Services

Dedication; Forewords; 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 Us; 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 Client-Side Programming; 1.10 Programmatic Versus Administrative Configuration; 1.11 WCF Architecture; 1.12 Working with Channels; 1.13 Transport-Level Sessions; 1.14 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 Data Sets and Tables; 3.9 Generics; 3.10 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; 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; Publish-Subscribe Service; The Publish-Subscribe Design Pattern; The Publish-Subscribe Framework; Code-Access Security; Code-Access Support in .NET 3.5; Partially Trusted Clients; Partially Trusted Services; Partially Trusted Hosts; 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; ServiceModelEx Catalog; Colophon;