Links for certification skills measured – 70-513: TS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Sharing my personal study reference for the WCF cert. I added links to the MSDN docs where I could find a suitable place, please feel free to send me improvement suggestions (should it be put in a wiki page instead maybe?..). Enjoy!

Creating Services (20%)

• Create service and operation contracts.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: one-way, duplex, and request reply; creating and specifying  fault contracts; configuration-based contracts; exposing service metadata; selecting serialization (e.g., data contract serializer vs. XML serializer)

  This objective does not include: designing service and operation contracts; transactions, instantiation, security-related attributes

• Create data contracts.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: managing Known Types; controlling data serialization; using required and order attributes on data members; implementing versioning using IExtensibleDataObject; POCOs

  This objective does not include: using custom serializer (ISerializationSurrogate)

• Create message contracts.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: body and header elements; using required and order attributes on members

• Implement generic message handling.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: creating a catch-all contract; reading and writing messages; working with properties; working with headers

  This objective does not include: inheriting from Message class; using BodyWriter; creating Fault messages

• Implement RESTful services.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: accessing HTTP context; WebGet/WebInvoke, UriTemplates; JSON/POX

• Create and configure a Routing service.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: filters, static and dynamic, context-based routing, content-based routing; router interfaces

• Create and configure a Discovery service.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring ad hoc and managed modes; Discovery scopes; service announcements

Hosting and Configuring Services (18%)

• Create and configure endpoints.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: default and standard bindings; custom bindings created from standard binding elements; standard endpoints; transports including HTTP, TCP, named pipes, UDP, MSMQ code-based service configuration; message encoding

  This objective does not include: creating a custom binding element; creating new standard endpoints, loading configuration from a location other than the default application configuration file, security, transaction, reliable sessions

• Configure Behaviors.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: applying service, endpoint, and operation behaviors in configuration and code

  This objective does not include: creating a custom behavior; creating and using dispatch behaviors,loading configuration from a location other than the default application configuration file

• Implement self hosting.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring and instantiating a service host

  This objective does not include: implementing a custom service host

• Implement Web server hosting.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring IIS/WAS for WCF; deploying to IIS/WAS; file-less configuration; specifying a ServiceHost

  This objective does not include: Windows Application Server

Consuming Services (18%)

• Create a service proxy.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: using a proxy class or channel factory to create a proxy; creating a proxy for an asynchronous communication; creating a proxy for a duplex communication

  This objective does not include: SvcUtil command-line switches

• Configure client endpoints.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: standard bindings, custom bindings created from standard binding elements, configuring behaviors; code-based and configuration-based bindings; configuring addresses

  This objective does not include: security; creating custom behaviors

• Invoke a service.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: invoking a service operation synchronously and asynchronously; handling service faults ; using the Message class; managing the life cycle of the proxy (open channels, close channels, abort channels, handle faulted channels); implementing duplex communication

• Consume RESTful services.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: access HTTP context; JSON/POX

• Implement service Discovery.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring target scope; monitoring service announcements

Securing Services (17%)

• Configure secure Bindings.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: transport, message, mixed mode

• Configure message security.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: specifying protection levels on different message parts

• Implement Authentication.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: Microsoft ASP.NET Membership Provider, Custom Provider, Windows Integrated Security, certificates (X.509), Federated Authentication endpoint identity; configuring client credentials; Custom Validator

  This objective does not include: Geneva Framework

• Implement Authorization.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: role based, claim based; configuring role providers for endpoints; principal permission attribute

  This objective does not include: rights-management authorization such as Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)

• Implement Impersonation.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: configuration and code; configuring WCF-specific Internet Information Services (IIS) impersonation properties; configuring impersonation options; operation-based and service-based

• Implement security auditing.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: using serviceSecurityAudit behavior, service auditing, audit log

Managing the Service Instance Life Cycle (13%)

• Manage service instances.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: per call; per session; single; code and configuration; activation and deactivation; durable services; throttling

• Manage sessions.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: code and configuration; session management attributes; throttling; reliable sessions; transport-level and application-level sessions; invoking a callback contract

• Implement transactions.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: distributed transactions; transactional queues;transaction flow; configuring transaction binding attributes; WS-AtomicTransaction (WS-AT); transactional behavior attributes at the service and operation level; using transactions in code

• Manage concurrency.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: single, multiple, and reentrant concurrency modes; SynchronizationContext and CallbackBehavior

  This objective does not include: deadlocks and other multithreading issues

• Manage consistency between instances, sessions, transactions, and concurrency.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: possible combinations between instances, sessions, transactions, and concurrency (for example, instance mode single with concurrency mode multiple)

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Distributed Systems (14%)

• Configure message logging.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring message listeners; logging level; message filters; configuring logging known PII

  This objective does not include: secure message logs

• Configure diagnostics.

        This objective may include but is not limited to: WMI; performance counters; event logging

• Debug client-service interactions.

  This objective may include but is not limited to: sending server exception details to client; end-to-end tracing; interpreting output from the trace viewer (single message and end to end)

  This objective does not include: tracing viewer features outside of viewing traces

Custom .NET DateTime formats

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

How to generate cs classes from xsd to consume xml

xsd /classes /language:cs /namespace:AndyHammar.Samples XsdFile.xsd

short:

xsd /c /l:cs /n:AndyHammar.Samples XsdFile.xsd

Howto write the ellipsis character on Windows

ALT + keypad 0133

update web reference: The components required to enumerate Web references are not installed on this computer.

cmd: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe” /resetskippkgs

From: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vstsdb/thread/bc3d9061-89c8-48b1-8e4e-9a876de955f3

setting up diff/merge tools in Visual Studio

This guy has all the params for all tools, here are the tortoisemerge merge params:

/base:%3 /mine:%2 /theirs:%1 /basename:%8 /minename:%7 /theirsname:%6 /merged:%4 /mergedname:%9

http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/articles/535573.aspx

Switching html design/split/source view in Visual Studio

Ctrl + Page Down/Page Up

Keyboard ruulez.

debugging memory with sos.dll

Project properties - debug - "enable unmanaged code debugging"

 .load SOS.dll

 !dumpheap -type MyBusinessObject

 !dumpheap -min 80000

 !gcroot 02747d6c

 !finalizequeue

http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2007/10/19/net-finalizer-memory-leak-debugging-with-sos-dll-in-visual-studio.aspx

getting scheduled tasks output to file

Props goes to: http://richarddingwall.name/2009/01/26/capture-the-output-from-a-scheduled-task/

To put in the sceduled tasks run command:

cmd /C DropboxCacheClearer.exe "d:\dropbox\cache" 5 >> DropboxCacheClearer.log 2>&1

set windows batch script variable to output of command

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%R IN (‘grep “ApplicationVersion” myfile.txt’) DO SET version_string=%%R

Replace the %%R with %R when testing on the command prompt.