Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introducing Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation
  • What is SOA?
  • Web services
    • What is a web service?
    • Web service WSDL
    • Web service proxy
    • SOAP
  • Web services: standards and specifications
    • WS-I Profiles
    • WS-Addressing
    • WS-Security
    • WS-ReliableMessaging
    • WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction
  • WCF: Windows Communication Foundation
  • What is WCF?
  • Why is WCF used for SOA?
  • WCF architecture
  • Basic WCF concepts—WCF ABCs
    • Address
    • Binding
    • Contract
      • Service contract
      • Operation contract
      • Message contract
      • Data contract
      • Fault contract
    • Endpoint
    • Behavior
    • Hosting
      • Self hosting
      • Windows services hosting
      • IIS hosting
      • Windows Activation Services hosting
    • Channels
    • Metadata
  • WCF production and development environments
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Implementing a Basic HelloWorld WCF Service
  • Creating the HelloWorld solution and project
  • Creating the HelloWorldService service contract interface
  • Implementing the HelloWorldService service contract
  • Hosting the WCF service in ASP.NET Development Server
    • Creating the host application
    • Testing the host application
    • ASP.NET Development Server
    • Adding an SVC file to the host application
    • Modifying the web.config file
    • Starting the host application
  • Creating a client to consume the WCF service
    • Creating the client application project
    • Generating the proxy and configuration files
    • Customizing the client application
    • Running the client application
    • Setting the service application to AutoStart
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Hosting and Debugging the HelloWorld WCF Service
  • Hosting the HelloWorld WCF service
    • Hosting the service in a managed application
      • Hosting the service in a console application
      • Consuming the service hosted in a console application
    • Hosting the service in a Windows service
    • Hosting the service in Internet Information Server
      • Preparing the folders and files
      • Turn on Internet Information Services
      • Creating the IIS application
      • Starting the WCF service in IIS
      • Testing the WCF service hosted in IIS
    • Other WCF service hosting options
  • Debugging the HelloWorld WCF service
    • Debugging from the client application
      • Starting the debugging process
      • Debugging on the client application
      • Attaching to ASP.NET Development Server
      • Stepping into the WCF service
    • Debugging only the WCF service
      • Starting the WCF Service in debugging mode
      • Starting the client application in non-debugging mode
      • Starting the WCF service and client applications in debugging mode
    • Attaching to a WCF service process
      • Running the WCF service and client applications in non-debugging mode
      • Debugging the WCF service hosted in IIS
    • Just-In-Time debugger
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Implementing a WCF Service in the Real World
  • Why layer a service?
  • Creating a new solution and project using WCF templates
    • Using the C# WCF service library template
    • Using the C# WCF service application template
  • Creating the service interface layer
    • Creating the service interfaces
    • Creating the data contracts
    • Implementing the service contracts
    • Modifying the app.config file
    • Testing the service using WCF Test Client
    • Testing the service using our own client
  • Adding a business logic layer
    • Adding the product entity project
    • Adding the business logic project
    • Calling the business logic layer from the service interface layer
    • Testing the WCF service with a business logic layer
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Adding Database Support and Exception Handling to the RealNorthwind WCF Service
  • Adding a data access layer
    • Creating the data access layer project
    • Calling the data access layer from the business logic layer
    • Preparing the database
    • Adding the connection string to the configuration file
    • Querying the database (GetProduct)
    • Testing the GetProduct method
    • Updating the database (UpdateProduct)
  • Adding error handling to the service
    • Adding a fault contract
    • Throwing a fault exception
    • Updating the client program to catch the fault exception
    • Testing the fault exception
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: LINQ—Language Integrated Query
  • What is LINQ
  • Creating the test solution and project
  • New data type var
  • Automatic properties
  • Object initializer
  • Collection initializer
  • Anonymous types
  • Extension methods
  • Lambda expressions
  • Built-in LINQ extension methods and method syntax
  • LINQ query syntax and query expression
  • Built-in LINQ operators
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: LINQ to Entities: Basic Concepts and Features
  • ORM—Object-Relational Mapping
  • Entity Framework
  • LINQ to Entities
  • Comparing LINQ to Entities with LINQ to Objects
    • LINQ to SQL
  • Comparing LINQ to SQL with LINQ to Entities
  • Creating a LINQ to Entities test application
  • Creating the Data Model
    • Adding a LINQ to Entities item to the project
    • Generated LINQ to Entities classes
  • Querying and updating the database with a table
    • Querying records
    • Updating records
    • Inserting records
    • Deleting records
    • Running the program
  • View Generated SQL statements
    • View SQL statements using ToTraceString
    • View SQL statements using Profiler
  • Deferred execution
    • Checking deferred execution with SQL profiler
    • Deferred execution for singleton methods
    • Deferred execution for singleton methods within sequence expressions
  • Deferred (lazy) loading versus eager loading
    • Lazy loading by default
    • Eager loading the with Include method
  • Joining two tables
  • Querying a view
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: LINQ to Entities: Advanced Concepts and Features
  • Calling a stored procedure
    • Mapping a stored procedure to a new entity class
      • Modeling a stored procedure
      • Querying a stored procedure
    • Mapping a stored procedure to an existing entity class
  • Compiled query
  • Direct SQL
  • Dynamic query
    • Dynamic query with expressions
    • Dynamic query with parameters
  • Inheritance
    • LINQ to Entities Table per Hierarchy inheritance
      • Modeling the BaseCustomer and USACustomer entities
      • Modeling the UKCustomer entity
      • Generated classes with TPH inheritance
      • Testing the TPH inheritance
    • LINQ to Entities Table per Type inheritance
      • Preparing database tables
      • Modeling USACustomer1 and UKCustomer1 entities
      • Generated classes with TPT inheritance
      • Testing the TPT inheritance
  • Handling simultaneous (concurrent) updates
    • Detecting conflicts using a data column
      • Explaining the Concurrency Mode property
      • Adding another Entity Data Model
      • Writing the test code
      • Testing the conflicts
      • Turning on concurrency control
    • Detecting conflicts using a version column
      • Adding a version column
      • Modeling the Products table with a version column
      • Writing the test code
      • Testing the conflicts
  • Transaction support
    • Implicit transactions
    • Explicit transactions
  • Adding validations to entity classes
  • Debugging LINQ to Entities programs
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Applying LINQ to Entities to a WCF Service
  • Creating the LINQNorthwind solution
  • Modeling the Northwind database
  • Copying the connection string to the service layer
  • Using LINQ to Entities in the data access layer
    • Modifying GetProduct in the data access layer
    • Modifying UpdateProduct in the data access layer
    • Testing LINQ to Entities with the WCF Test Client
  • Adding concurrency support
    • Turning on RowVersion concurrency mode
    • Modifying the ProductEntity class
    • Modifying the ProductDAO class
      • Modifying the GetProduct method
      • Modifying UpdateProduct method
    • Modifying the business logic layer classes
    • Modifying the service interface layer classes
  • Testing concurrency with WCF Test Client
  • Testing concurrency with our own client
    • Creating the test client
      • Implementing the GetProduct functionality
      • Implementing the UpdateProduct functionality
    • Testing the GetProduct and UpdateProduct operations
    • Testing concurrent update manually
    • Testing concurrent update automatically
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Distributed Transaction Support of WCF
  • Creating the DistNorthwind solution
  • Hosting the WCF service in IIS
  • Testing the transaction behavior of the WCF service
    • Creating a client to call the WCF service sequentially
    • Testing the sequential calls to the WCF service
    • Wrapping the WCF service calls in one transaction scope
    • Testing multiple database support of the WCF service
      • Creating a new WCF service
      • Calling the new WCF service in the client application
      • Testing the WCF service with two databases
  • Enabling distributed transaction support
    • Enabling transaction flow in service binding
      • Enabling transaction flow on the service hosting application
    • Modifying the service operation contract to allow a transaction flow
    • Modifying the service operation implementation to require a transaction scope
  • Understanding the distributed transaction support of a WCF service
  • Testing the distributed transaction support of the WCF service
    • Configuring the Distributed Transaction Coordinator
    • Configuring the firewall
    • Propagating a transaction from the client to the WCF service
      • Testing distributed transaction support with one database
      • Testing distributed transaction support with two databases
  • Summary

• Index

Mike Liu

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