Lecture #10 - Service Clients

Web Resources:

Color Lab, Color Codes, HTML tags, Everything HTML, XML, HTML, Scripting, webdeveloper.earthweb, devx..., W3Schools, Web Developer's Virtual Library, World-Wide Web Consortium, WebReference

Content:

This lecture is concerned with WCF services and WPF clients.

1. Syllabus describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.

2. Final Projects:

   Final Project1, Final Project2, Final Project3

3. Material from last lecture - Traditional Asp.Net Web Services:

   Web Services Tutorials and References:

   W3Schools, WebService Class - MSDN

   Web Services Presentation

   CalcWebService - view web page, CalcWebService - view folder
   Web Service using Session - view web page, Web Service using Session - view folder
   Notepad Web Service

4. Web Api Clients

   C# Threads and Tasks

   HTTP Made Really Easy

   HttpClient - MSDN, HttpClient Tutorial - dotnetperls.com
   Calling WebApi from .Net Client, Calling WebApi using HttpClient - CodeProject
   Understanding Simple Async Program, Async with HttpClient

   Mvc-WebApi-FileService
   Uses transfer of byte arrays to download files in chunked form.
   This is the recommended approach to build clients for WebApi services. We'll use this next time applied to Windows Presentation Foundation clients.

   Asp.Net MVC File Manager and Console Client - File uploads and downloads
   Uses traditional multi-part form encoding to send files. Seems complicated to me.

   WPF Dispatcher Demo

   Accessing Web api using async and await, Async Await in WPF application

5. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF):

   WPF Presentation

   WPF Controls
   Illustrates how to use a few of the WPF controls.
   Routed Events
   Shows how events bubble up the Xaml parse tree.
   Attached Properties
   WPF properties are based on a property management system that uses dependency objects to manage visual relationships.
   User Controls
   User Controls allow users to combine WPF controls into panels that can be treated as a single composite control.
   Data Templates
   Data templates allow you to customize the way controls present their information.

6. .Net Delegates

   Delegate structure, New technologies introduced in .Net 3.5
7. Lab Assignment #10