Course Content:
Lesson 1 - Overview of service and cloud technologies
Key Components of Distributed Applications
Data and Data Access Technologies
Service Technologies
Cloud Computing
Exploring Blue Yonder Airlines’ Travel Companion Application
Lab : Exploring the work environment
Lesson 2 - Querying and manipulating data using Entity Framework
ADO.NET overview
Creating an entity data model
Querying data
Manipulating data
Lab : Creating a data access layer using Entity Framework
Lesson 3 - Creating and consuming ASP.NET Web API services
What are HTTP services?
Creating an ASP.NET Web API service
Handling HTTP requests and responses
Hosting and consuming ASP.NET Web API services
Lab : Creating the travel reservation ASP.NET Web API service
Lesson 4 - Extending and securing ASP.NET Web API services
The ASP.NET Web API request pipeline
The ASP.NET Web API response pipeline
Creating OData services
Implementing Security in ASP.NET Web API services
Injecting dependencies into controllers
Lab : Extending Travel Companion’s ASP.NET Web API services
Lesson 5 - Creating WCF services
Advantages of creating services with WCF
Creating and implementing a contract
Configuring and hosting WCF services
Consuming WCF services
Lab : Creating and consuming the WCF booking service
Lesson 6 - Designing and extending WCF services
Applying design principles to service contracts
Handling distributed transactions
WCF pipeline architecture
Extending the WCF pipeline
Lab : Designing and extending WCF services
Lesson 7 - Implementing Security in WCF services
Transport security
Message security
Configuring service authentication and authorization
Lab : Securing a WCF service
Lesson 8 - Windows Azure Service Bus
Windows Azure Service Bus Relays
Windows Azure Service Bus Queues
Windows Azure Service Bus Topics
Lab : Windows Azure Service Bus
Lesson 9 - Hosting services
Hosting services on-premises
Hosting services in Windows Azure
Lab : Hosting Services
Lesson 10 - Deploying Services
Web Deployment with Visual Studio
Creating and deploying Web Application packages
Command-line tools for web deployment packages
Deploying to Windows Azure
Continuous delivery with TFS and GIT
Best practices for production deployment
Lab : Deploying services
Lesson 11 - Windows Azure Storage
Introduction to Windows Azure storage
Windows Azure Blob Storage
Windows Azure Table Storage
Windows Azure Queue Storage
Restricting access to Windows Azure Storage
Lab : Windows Azure Storage
Lesson 12 - Monitoring and diagnostics
Performing diagnostics using tracing
Configuring service diagnostics
Monitoring IIS
Monitoring services using Windows Azure diagnostics
Debugging using IntelliTrace
Collecting Windows Azure metrics
Lab : Monitoring and Diagnostics
Lesson 13 - Identity management and access control
Claim-based identity concepts
Access Control Service
Configuring services to use federated identities
Handling federated identities in the client side
Lab : Identity management and access control
Lesson 14 - Scaling Services
Introduction to scalability
Load balancing
Scaling on-premises services with distributed cache
Windows Azure caching
Caveats of scaling services
Scaling globally
Lab : Scalability