Clemens Vasters, Community Program Manager on the Windows Communication Foundation Team, explains what "bindings" are and how they control the construction of the Windows Communication Foundation channel stack at runtime and what that channel stack is to begin with.

This webcast explains how binding configuration builds the communication channel, introduce you to each of the standard bindings, and explain the core protocols and features provided by each of these bindings.

This webcast provides practical guidance for designing service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts—showing you when and how to employ each.

This video takes you through how to implement operator overloading and inheritance in WCF. Specifically it takes you through how to make changes the client proxies that srvcutil generates so you can still use these .NET concepts.

Find out how to implement a one-way service contract.

This webcast provides an introduction to SOAP faults and their relationship to service metadata, since they are the standard for propagating exceptions from services.

This webcast provides a long list of extensibility points and their purposes, while demonstrating some popular requirements and their solutions.

This walkthrough will demonstrate how to create a simple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service and how to use that service from a Windows client application.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the Microsoft messaging platform for building service-oriented applications. Released with the Windows Vista operating system, and part of the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0, WCF unifies the programming model for how components and services communicate: be they distributed or not, accessible beyond firewalls, or available through interoperable interfaces. Join us to learn how WCF is the evolution of Microsoft .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, Microsoft ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX), and Web Services Enhancements (WSE) in a single technology stack. In this first webcast in our 15-part series, we introduce you to WCF as a technology for service-orientated architecture (SOA), discuss the programming model, and provide a short overview of core features that will be discussed in subsequent webcasts.

This webcast describes the desired features of a hosting environment and the fundamentals of WCF service hosting. It also drills deeper into hosting semantics and features of Windows applications, Windows services, IIS, and WAS.

Learn how to host WCF within a console application. We'll walk through the basics of getting it up and running in just 3 minutes.

This webcast explores PerCall, PerSession, and Single instancing modes, explain call and lifetime semantics for each, and illustrate the scenarios in which they are best applied.

The WCF offers a flexible choice of mechanisms for turning a SOAP message into something that we can transmit between services. In this session we'll look at the options.

The WCF has a lot of flexibility in the way in which it goes from .NET objects to SOAP messages. It can handle parameters and typed/untyped messages. Let's take a look.

This webcast introduces you to reliable sessions, a binding feature in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that provides assurance at the message level using WS-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM).

In an server side development, concurrency always crops up and the WCF is no exception. Here we explore the options for single and multi-threaded services.

This movie demonstrates how to query meta-data exposed by a service programmatically as well as how to create a proxy class on the fly using the Channel Factory.

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has added support for WCF in the form of WCF adapters.  This video show this support and how to use it in BizTalk.

A demonstration of simple WCF performance testing.

Windows Communication Foundation in .NET Framework V3.5 has some new capabilities around easily building services which manage long-running conversations with clients. The new framework bits make it much easier to write services and clients which operate in a web farm, survive re-starts whilst maintaining a client conversation.

Do you want bring your business data to life in Microsoft Office Applications like Microsoft and SAP have provided in Duet? Do you want to provide your employees with a view into your business data with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007? With Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and the WCF Line-of-Business Adapter software development kit (SDK), it is now possible to provide this level of integration to any line-of-business (LOB) application. Whether you are using Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, JD Edwards, or any other business application, you can develop Microsoft Office business applications and SharePoint Web parts to access your business data. In this webcast, we provide an overview on using WCF for application integration with Microsoft Office client and server products. Next, we show you how you can use WCF-based adapters for integration between your LOB applications and Microsoft Office business applications. Finally, you learn how to develop Web parts that utilize custom adapters for accessing business data. Each demonstration in this webcast utilizes a custom WCF-based JD Edwards EnterpriseOne adapter.

Windows Communication Foundation V3.5 comes with a built-in object model that makes serialization and consumption of syndication formats like RSS and ATOM a lot easier than hand-cranking your own XML. In this video, we'll take a look at how we add RSS generation to an existing WCF service.

The aim of this talk is to give people insight into our security architecture and how it fits in the overall WCF architecture. It covers the architecture of security binding element and channels, the relation between transport and message security and how they fit in the WCF channel stack, security credentials and service authorization, integration with existing authorization frameworks (MembershipProvider, PrincipalPermission), and introduction to claims and XSI.  This talk will also describes how we applied the Trustworthy Computing Security Development Lifecycle to the WCF infrastructure. It elaborates on the processes we followed for design reviews, threat modeling, and security testing. It also describes how these processes (and lessons) can apply to securing your WCF applications.

The WCF has facilities for auditing message authentication operations and service authorisation operations. In this session we'll look at how we can configure those facilities.

The WCF provides transfer security for messages either by relying on the transport or by using message level mechanisms. In this session we'll look at using message security in order to perform authentication and provide privacy and integrity for messages.

This webcast shows you how to build a claims-based security model using custom authorization policies, permissions, and attributes. Learn how this plays into a federated model, allowing you to decouple authentication and authorization from your business service implementations using WSFederationHttpBinding. It also discusses SAML tokens, describe how to create custom claims, and examine how the flow of communication works between clients, token issuers, and services.

The WCF offers a number of different serialization technologies for turning .NET object types into XML for transmission across service boundaries. This session explores what's available.

This video shows how to use sessions within WCF, allowing you keep context available between calls from a client.

The WCF has facilities for coordinating work done by multiple pieces of software under a single atomic transaction. In this session we'll look at getting that set up and working.

Transactions are the key to building robust, high quality service-oriented applications. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a simple, declarative transaction support for service developers, enabling you to configure parameters such as enlistment and voting, all outside the scope of your service. In addition, WCF allows client applications to create transactions and to propagate transactions across service boundaries over a variety of transports. In this webcast, we explain how to configure transaction flow at the binding, contract, and service level, local versus distributed transactions, setting of service transactions, declarative voting, and the available configurations that best fit various application scenarios.

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, developers now have multiple alternatives to build applications that combine WCF and WF. In this webcast, 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.