Lecture #9 - Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

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Office Hours: Instructor & TAs

Content:

1. The Syllabus describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.
2. Project #2, Project #3, Project #4
3. WCF Presentation
   
4. WCF Self Host Service
   Microsoft's calculator service, used in many of the MS WCF Samples
5. WCF Self Hosted Strings Service
   Demonstrate service sending strings by value, reference, and receiving out string.
6. WCF Instances
   Show how to use each of the three server activation models using Microsoft Calculator service.
7. WCF Message Concurrency
   Explore effects of message concurrency using Microsoft Calculator service.
8. WCF Message Passing
   Illustrate use of message contract with Microsoft Calculator service.
9. WCF Message Passing Communication
   Show how to build a simple, effective message-passing system using WCF data contract.
10. WCF Peer-To-Perr Communication
    This example uses both WCF and WPF to build a chat like facility.
11. WCF Wizard-based Service
    This project shows you what the C# WCF wizard generates. It's probably easier to start from one of my projects.
12. File Streaming Service
    Illustrates how to use streaming (inherently chunks) of binary files.
13. MSDN Getting Started with WCF Tutorial
    

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