Thursday, May 15, 2008

WCF for Web Developers

with Jean-Luc David

Definitions

·WCF - Windows Communication Foundation

·REST - Representation State Transfer

·RSS/ATOM - Syndication standards

·POX - Plain Old XML

Web Dev Challenges

·Pace of change

·Social networking and content syndication

·Ramp up time

·What format to use at what time

    • SOAP, RSS, REST, XML, etc.

WCF

·One communication API

·Highly customizable

·Partial trust support

·WebScriptServiceHostFactory

    • Don't need a config file

·You can use various locations for your service

    • Console, WinForm, Web, IIS, Windows Activation SErvice

Notes

·Use sniffer to see what's being put on the wire

·With WCF you have to add the attributes to the entities

·There is a WCF performance White Paper

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