Brief Summary
This course dives into creating services using WCF and Web APIs. You'll learn how to send messages and handle data using modern frameworks. It's all about making your applications talk to each other like best buddies. Fun, right?
Key Points
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WCF is for building service-oriented applications.
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Send data as asynchronous messages between service endpoints.
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Endpoints can be hosted by IIS or applications.
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Web APIs use defined request-response systems.
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Data is typically in JSON or XML format.
Learning Outcomes
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Understand the basics of WCF and how it works.
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Create and host your own Web APIs.
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Learn to send and receive data effectively.
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Familiarize yourself with asynchronous messaging.
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Explore how to expose services on the web.
About This Course
Learn how to develop services using WCF and Web APIs.
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WCF
It is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using WCF, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. A service endpoint can be part of a continuously available service hosted by IIS, or it can be a service hosted in an application. An endpoint can be a client of a service that requests data from a service endpoint. The messages can be as simple as a single character or word sent as XML, or as complex as a stream of binary data.
Web APIs
A server-side web API is a programmatic interface to a defined request-response message system, typically expressed in JSON or XML, which is exposed via the web—most commonly by means of an HTTP-based web server
Hari R.
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