Northeast Roadshow: Something WCF This Way Comes

Wondering how WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) fits in to your developer life? This screencast, presented by Chris Bowen, is based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow and introduces WCF for developers, covering the motivation, mechanics of creating distributed applications with WCF, and a glimpse at some related topics and future directions.

Screencast outline:

• Introduction
• [3:02] Demo: First WCF Service
• [6:41] Endpoints (Address, Binding, Contract)
• [14:16] Configuration
• [16:20] Demo: Adding a WCF Client, WCF Configuration Editor, Diagnostics, Service Trace Viewer
• [36:10] Metadata
• [38:38] Behaviors
• [40:24] Related Topics
• [43:30] .NET Framework 4

Slides for this session, and other Northeast Roadshow sessions, can be found on the Code Gallery.