Las Vegas, NV | June 8 - 11, 2009
At VSLive in Las Vegas, Jesus Rodriguez presented the following sessions:
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a rich messaging framework that extends beyond its capabilities for modeling and implementing services. One of the aspects where WCF really shines when compared with competitive Web services stacks is its rich extensibility model that allows developers to customize the default behavior of the framework. The better we understand the WCF extensibility model the better chance we have to make the right use of WCF in real-world applications.
In this session, we dive deeply into the WCF extensibility model, detailing the different extensibility points of WCF subsystems such as Channels, Hosting, Security, Metadata, Encoding, and others. Specifically, we provide practical demonstrations of how custom channels, behaviors, operation invokers, authorization managers, and metadata extensions can be used to extend WCF effectively without affecting the consistency of the programming model. We also highlight a set of best practices developers should consider to address their specific scenarios properly when extending WCF.
WCF-WF Integration In-Depth with an Eye Towards Dublin:
The combination of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) provides the building block for the next generation of Microsoft .NET applications. With the release of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and the upcoming 4.0, developers now have multiple alternatives to build applications that combine WCF and WF. In this session, we illustrate some of the most common scenarios for integrating WCF and WF, and we explore mechanisms such as Durable Services, Workflow Services, rules-based authorization, line-of-business workflows, and other mechanisms that are best implemented by combining WCF and WF. We also share a series of best practices and techniques that developers can follow in order to implement a seamless integration between WCF and WF. Additionally, we explore how the Dublin Application Server provides a better ecosystem for WCF-WF integrated solutions.
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