.NET includes complementary web service frameworks that allow enterprise applications to gain online access to critical business data. In this .NET Web Services training course, you will program WCF, ASP.NET Web API, and SignalR web services with C# or Visual Basic to exploit each of the frameworks and maximize these technologies. These services connect isolated data to create powerful, distributed .NET applications.
.NET Web Services Delivery Methods
.NET Web Services Course Benefits
Create Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) servicesDevelop RESTful web services with ASP.NET Web APIHarness real–time web services with SignalRConnect MVC, WPF, and HTML5 browser clients to .NET services
.NET Web Services Course Outline
Prerequisites
- Experience with .NET programming in either Visual Basic or C# at the level of:
- You should know how to:
- Write classes containing methods and properties
- Design and implement programmatic interfaces
- Employ data access in .NET using ADO.NET
- Craft user interfaces for web or Windows applications with ASP.NET, Windows Forms, or WPF
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 behaviors
- 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
