PDC 2009 Session Update
We’ve got a new round of talks uploaded to the PDC site if you’ll be attending the conference.
Ed Pinto is signed up to do a talk on the new features in WCF 4, including the topics of discovery and routing that were asked about in response to my PDC survey earlier.
What’s New for Windows Communication Foundation 4 by Ed Pinto
Learn about the investments made in Windows Communication Foundation 4 that add new capabilities for service composition and reduced configuration and deployment complexity. Discover how improvements to configuration, monitoring, and deployment are enhanced by Microsoft project code name "Dublin". See how the Routing Service makes it easier to build sophisticated intermediaries and how support for WS-Discovery adds flexibility to your services infrastructure. Gain insight into the improved authoring experience for REST services applications including new support for caching, multiple formats, and fault handling.
We’ll keep workflow services separate in their own talk with Mark Fussell.
Workflow Services and “Dublin” by Mark Fussell
Learn how to use Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4, and “Dublin” to build and manage scalable, reliable, and highly-available applications. Discover the power of WF to build and coordinate WCF services and implement logic on the middle tier. Enable sophisticated messaging patterns with correlation, enhanced transaction support, durable services, and config-based activation. Learn how "Dublin" makes it easier to deploy, manage, and monitor WCF and WF applications.
There’s also a talk planned on WCF services as seen in Silverlight.
Networking and Web Services in Silverlight
This session will present an overview of how to expose data to a Silverlight application by accessing SOAP WCF services and REST services. In the WCF space, we will cover Silverlight 3 approaches for securing services and improving their performance and maintainability. We will also cover a specific message pattern called server push, which allows you to implement scenarios such as email clients and real-time chat. In the REST space, we will walk through the Silverlight 3 client HTTP stack and new functionality it offers around HTTP verbs, headers, responses, and cross-domain access and talk about future plans for networking and web services in Silverlight.
Finally, WCF will be appearing in a few applied talks by some groups that integrate with it for communication.
Windows Identity Foundation Overview by Vittorio Bertocci
Hear how Windows Identity Foundation makes advanced identity capabilities and open standards first class citizens in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Learn how the Claims Based access model integrates seamlessly with the traditional .NET identity object model while also giving developers complete control over every aspect of authentication, authorization, and identity-driven application behavior. See examples of the point and click tooling with tight Microsoft Visual Studio integration, advanced STS capabilities, and much more that Windows Identity Foundation consistently provides across on-premise, service-based, ASP.NET and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications.
Accelerating Applications Using Windows HPC Server 2008
Learn how to accelerate your applications by multiple orders of magnitude using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Microsoft Excel, and Windows HPC Server 2008. See how easy it is to offload the calculations from a desktop application to an HPC Server Cluster using the HPC SOA programming model, with emphasis on performance tuning best practices.
For those of you that were interested in talks on WCF internals or making better use of WCF, have you seen my PDC talk from last year on WCF performance? What are other topics that you’d be interested in for existing features and versions of WCF? If there’s a lot of interest in a specific topic I’ll try to figure out a way for us to get you content on it.