This document provides an overview of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Server AppFabric. It discusses new features in WCF 4 that make it easier to use, such as default endpoints and configuration. It also explains what AppFabric is and how it can be used with WCF to provide a scalable and manageable solution for hosting services on Windows. The document contains examples of using Plain Old CLR Objects (POCO) with WCF and demonstrates how WCF and AppFabric can work together easily.

2. Robert MacLean Technology Specialist BB&D WCF Made Easy with .NET 4 & Windows Server AppFabric

3. Who am I? Robert MacLean Microsoft ALM MVP Microsoft ALM Ranger Proud Community Lead Information Worker S.A. Architect www.sadev.co.za @rmaclean

4. Overture Level 300 What is new in WCF 4 to make it easy? What is AppFabric? WCF + AppFabric = Easy Warning: Excessive use of implicit, explicit and angle brackets ahead

5. The big picture of WCF 4 What is new? Configuration defaults, default endpoints Workflow Services High performance tracing with ETW New features for REST-based services Queued messaging enhancements New protocols Basic Profile 1.2 WS-Discovery and DiscoveryService RouterService New DataContractResolver, extensibility

6. My thoughts on WCF WCF is hard Compared to ASMX Configuration Bindings Endpoints

7. Building Services ASMX WCF Sexy Write class, add attribute Interface + Attribute Expose web methods Write class, add attribute “old” WCF Just work with POCO Just work with POCO Interface + Attribute Write class, add attribute Data Contracts Config Config Fixes

8. WCF Sexy Demo

9. Protocol Mappings This is your binding Start with this Eg: http://demo Default binding config!!!

10. Default Endpoints & Hosts Self Host Supply base address via code or config Explicit: ServiceHost.AddDefaultEndPoints() Implicit: ServiceHost.Open() IIS Base address is .svc endpoint HTTP protocol is provided by default Protocols can be added in IIS Manager

11. Are Default Endpoints A Good Thing? Designed to cater for the current majority You may be special Quota issues WSHttp or WebHttp MEX Limiting which contracts on which protocols You can override in machine.config (bad – mostly) or app.config (better – mostly)

12. Refined Default Config <system.serviceModel> <behaviors> <serviceBehaviors> <behavior> <serviceMetadatahttpGetEnabled="true"/> <serviceDebugincludeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/> </behavior> </serviceBehaviors> </behaviors> <serviceHostingEnvironmentmultipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" /> </system.serviceModel>

13. POCO BEFORE .NET 3.5 SP1 Explicit [DataContract] publicclassUser { [DataMember] publicstringFirstName { get; set; } [DataMember] publicstringLastName { get; set; } [DataMember] publicstring Username { get; set; } publicstring Password { get; set; } // do not share }

14. POCO FROM .NET 3.5 SP1 IMPLICIT publicclassUser { publicstringFirstName { get; set; } publicstringLastName { get; set; } publicstring Username { get; set; } [IgnoreDataMember] publicstring Password { get; set; } // do not share }

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16. A rose by any other name… Windows Server AppFabric Contains two key components Hosting EndPoint, Windows App Server Extensions, Dublin Caching Velocity Not to be confused with Azure AppFabric

17. N.B. AppFabric Requires .NET 4 on Server Applications for not need .NET 4, depends on features Standalone download or Web Platform Installer High Availability is only in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise & Data Centre

18. Windows Server AppFabric Architecture Windows Server AppFabric Windows Activation Services .NET Framework SQL Server Tooling Logging IIS WCF WF ASP.NET Visual Studio SCOM PowerShell Event Tracing for Windows Persistence Monitoring Caching

19. AppFabric + WCF = Easy Demo

20. Summary WCF 4 can be as easy as ASMX For majority of simple scenarios Ability to break the mould is there AppFabric & WCF The tools to configure and manage services Scalable, manageable solution for hosting services on Windows

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