VBUG Bristol: The ABC's of Windows Communication Foundation with Ben Lamb

Date: Wednesday 10 September 2008 from 6:00 PM to 09:00 PM

Topic: VBUG Bristol: The ABC's of Windows Communication Foundation with Ben Lamb

Overview
The ABC's of Windows Communication Foundation

Writing a client-server application used to be pain. For projects that

were exclusively .NET you could use Remoting but suffered from brittle

interfaces. If you wanted to talk to other platforms the choice was

webservices which offered a small subset of features. Two different APIs,

two different sets of capabilities.

This talk introduces Windows Communications Foundation, Microsoft's

unified API for anything communications related in .NET. See how it lets

you create fast, non-brittle communications channels between your

application components and external services.

* Advantages of WCF

* Callbacks and Avoiding Deadlocks

* Differences between Remoting and WCF

* Versioning - why you don't want to upgrade all your clients simultaneously

* Additional features - reliability, guaranteed message ordering

* Streaming

By the end of the talk Addresses, Bindings and Contracts should all make

sense to you.

Please arrive from 18.00 ready for PROMPT start of 18.30.

Directions to venue:

http://www.bawa.biz/htm/php/driving_directions.php

Location: BAWA , Room 7 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7RG, GB

Price: FREE TO MEMBERS