.NET Web Services Training: WCF, Web API and SignalR

Web service architecture

• Dividing responsibilities in n–tier distributed applications
• Determining service and operation granularity
• Comparing operation–, resource– and real–time–focused services

Web service support in .NET

• The spectrum of .NET service toolkits
• WCF
• ASP.NET Web API services
• SignalR real–time services

Programming WCF services

• Creating the service interface and implementation
• Applying attributes to the service and operations
• Implementing data contracts explicitly and implicitly
• Employing fault contracts to report service errors

Accessing and hosting WCF services

• Connecting ASP.NET MVC and WPF clients to WCF
• Adding service references to client applications
• Coding clients without adding service references
• Hosting WCF services with IIS and Windows services

Configuring WCF services

• Authoring service and client configuration
• Leveraging bindings for interoperability and performance
• Harnessing service and endpoint behaviours
• Simplifying configuration with .NET 4.x

Creating ASP.NET Web API services

• Programming the API controller
• Mapping CRUD operations to HTTP verbs
• GET
• POST
• PUT / PATCH / MERGE
• DELETE
• Connecting service URLs to operations with routing

Web API clients and hosting

• Accessing Web API services from .NET, web and mobile clients
• Retrieving XML, JSON and Atom formatted data
• Hosting Web API services in IIS and custom applications

Constructing OData services with Web API

• Returning IQueryable from controller actions
• Querying OData service data with $select, $filter and $orderby

Exploiting Web API service features

• Integrating Web API services with Entity Framework
• Automating service documentation with help pages
• Validating with model binding and data annotations

Architecting ASP.NET SignalR services

• Replacing polling with server push
• Establishing candidate applications for SignalR
• Chat
• Monitoring
• Dashboard
• Collaboration

Coding SignalR services

• Developing the hub class
• Broadcasting to all connected clients
• Segmenting callbacks with groups

Interacting with SignalR services from browser clients

• Integrating SignalR with jQuery
• Responding to SignalR broadcast messages
• Managing the connection life cycle

WCF service security

• Selecting a secure binding
• Comparing transport and message security
• Authorizing service operations with principal permissions

ASP.NET Web API security

• Implementing individual account security with OAuth
• Integrating Web API with Forms authentication
• Enabling secure access to services with Authorize

• Building deployment packages with Visual Studio
• Enabling Web Sockets with IIS
• Monitoring WCF services with Windows Server AppFabric