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Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5-Windows Communication Foundation

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-503)

Announcing an all-new SELF-PACED TRAINING KIT designed to help maximize your performance on 70-503, the required exam for the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification in Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5-Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. It comes packed with the tools and features exam candidates want most - including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and customizable testing options. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise you can apply to the job.

Focusing on the Windows Communication Foundation, this official study guide covers creating, deploying, and administering services; defining service contracts; hosting services in managed applications and on Web servers; monitoring service health; creating service proxies; and consuming non-WCF services.


Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit

EXAM PREP GUIDE
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-503 - and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you´ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

• Define and implement service contracts
• Configure client and service endpoints across transport protocols
• Customize service behavior; host and expose services
• Add instrumentation to services, including end-to-end tracing
• Implement transport, message, and user level security
• Consume services through proxies and agents
• Manage the service life cycle - instances, sessions, transactions, concurrency

PRACTICE TESTS
Assess your skills with the practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers - including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

Your kit includes:

• 15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/13. Details inside.
• Official self-paced study guide.
• Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
• 225+ practice and review questions.
• Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# on CD.
• 90-day trial of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition.
• Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
• Fully searchable eBook of this guide.

The Contents of "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5-Windows Communication Foundation" at a Glance:

1. Contracts 1
2. Exposing the Services 77
3. Deploying Services 103
4. Consuming Services 129
5. Configuring WCF 197
6. Instrumentation 247
7. Infrastructure Security 323
8. User-Level Security 357
9. When Simple Isn´t Sufficient 411
10. Sessions and Instancing 441
11. Transactional Services 483
12. Concurrency 521

About the Authors:

Bruce Johnson is a partner at ObjectSharp Consulting in Toronto, Canada. For over 25 years, he has been involved in various parts of the computer industry, starting with UNIX and PL/1, through C++ and Microsoft Visual Basic (pre .NET), and, finally, all manner of Microsoft Windows applications and .NET technologies. His position as a consultant has allowed him to implement consumer-facing Web applications, Windows applications, and the whole gamut of service-based applications (Web Services, .NET remoting, and Windows Communication Foundation [WCF]). As well as having fun working just behind the bleeding edge of technology (you know, the place where stuff actually has to be delivered), he has given more than 200 presentations at conferences and user groups across North America. His writings include magazine columns and articles, a blog, and a number of Microsoft Press training kit books.

Peter Madziak is a senior consultant and instructor with Object-Sharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. He is a technical leader with more than 10 years´ experience helping development teams plan, design, and develop large software projects. Peter´s primary focus over the past few years has been on helping customers understand service-oriented architecture (SOA), Workflow and Business Process Management (BPM), Web Services (both RESTful and WS-*), event-driven architecture (EDA), and, more important, how all these technologies and architectural styles can be reconciled into an architecture that aligns well with business needs.

As a SOA and BPM expert, Peter helps customers implement solutions, using technologies such as WCF, Windows Workflow, Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, SQL Service Broker, and ASP.NET Web applications.

Sara Morgan is a robotics software engineer with CoroWare, Inc., and author of the newly released Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio (Microsoft Press, 2008). In addition to robotics, she has extensive experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and has been developing database-driven Web applications since the earliest days of Internet development.

Prior to joining CoroWare, she was an independent author and developer, and her main client was Microsoft. During that time, she co-wrote four training kits for Microsoft Press. Developers use these training kits to study for certification exam; the kits cover topics such as distributed development, Web application development, SQL Server query optimization, and SQL Server business intelligence. Sara has also written several articles for the online development journal, DevX.com, concerning Speech Server and the newly released Microsoft Robotics Studio. In early 2007, she was named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the Office Communications Server (OCS) group.