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¾ Step 1 – Read Principles of Service Design: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for an overview of SOA basics (~20 -30 min.)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954638.aspx

¾ Step 2 – Read Windows Communication Foundation Road Map to get an understanding of WCF goals, and its role in SOA enterprise architecture (~20 -30 min.)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480211.aspx

¾ Step 3 – Read On the road to Indigo: Prescriptive Guidance for Today's Technologies by Richard Turner to get an understanding of current state of all Microsoft distributed application technologies (20-30 min)

http://blogs.msdn.com/richardt/archive/2004/03/05/84834.aspx

¾ Step 4 – Read Windows Communication Foundation Architecture Overview by Yasser Shohoud to learn WCF basics: Addresses, Bindings, and Contracts (~45 min.)

http://www.yassers.com/content/soa/WCFArchOverview.aspx

¾ Step 5 – Read Windows Communication Foundation Architecture Overview to learn WCF basics: Endpoints, Bindings, Contracts, Behaviors (~45 min.)

(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/wcfarch.asp)

¾ Step 6 – Complete virtual lab “Understanding Windows Communication Foundation” (90 min.)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032315324&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

¾ Step 7 – Complete virtual lab “The Fundamentals of Programming the Windows Communication Foundation Virtual Lab” (90 min.)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032291422&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

¾ Step 8 – Look through WCF latest news and announcements (~20 min.)

http://wcf.netfx3.com/blogs/news_and_announcements/default.aspx

¾ Step 9 – Download and build the Data Contract Samples

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/WCF_Samples_MSDNLive/html/7a6107b5-eda1-491a-94a9-8265ba0c698b.asp

¾ Step 10 – Read the article “Serialization in Windows Communication Foundation”

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/08/ServiceStation/default.aspx

¾ Step 11 – Read Craig McMurty’s Blog on “Versioning Windows Communication Foundation Services”

http://blogs.msdn.com/craigmcmurtry/archive/2006/07/23/676104.aspx

¾ Step 12 – Read the article and review the code for “Discover Mighty Instance Management Techniques For Developing WCF Apps”

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/06/WCFEssentials/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/code/?url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/06/WCFEssentials/default.aspx (Code)

¾ Step 13 – Read the MSDN Documentation on “Synchronous and Asynchronous Operations”

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms734701.aspx

¾ Step 14 – Read Steven M. Cohn’s blogs on “WCF: Asynchronous Operations”

http://weblogs.asp.net/stevencohn/archive/2007/02/05/asynchronous-operations.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/stevencohn/archive/2007/03/22/wcf-asynchronous-operations-ii.aspx

¾ Step 15 – Read the MSDN Article “Build a Queued WCF Response Service

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/02/Foundations/default.aspx

¾ Step 16 – Read Designing and Implementing Services for a high level conceptual orientation to design and implement WCF services.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms729746.aspx

¾ Step 17 – Read Hosting WCF Services

http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/33655/1954?pf=true

¾ Step 18 – Read WCF Essentials – What You Need To Know About One-Way Calls, Callbacks, And Events by Juval Lowy (Source code included)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms729746.aspx

¾ Step 19 – Read Build a Queued WCF Response Service by Juval Lowy (Source code included) for a brief introduction to WCF queued calls followed by an interesting problem-how to get results out of a queued call-and the solution via some cool WCF programming techniques.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/02/Foundations/default.aspx

¾ Step 20 – Review Build a Queued WCF Response Service on Dr Dobb’s Portal

http://www.ddj.com/dept/windows/196900749

¾ Step 21 – Read the MSDN article on Sessions, Instancing, and Concurrency

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731193.aspx

¾ Step 22 – Read Understanding Windows Communication Foundation Extensibility for an overview of WCF’s extensibility points (~20-30 min.)

http://weblogs.asp.net/andresv/archive/2006/10/19/Understanding-WCF-Extensibility.aspx

¾ Step 23 – Watch MSDN Architecture Webcast: Extending Windows Communication Foundation by Aaron Skonnard for a demonstration of several key extensibility points (~70 min.)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032299314&EventCategory=5

¾ Step 24 – Review the following SDK extensibility samples (~180 min.)

¾ Custom Service Host
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa395224.aspx

¾ Message Inspectors
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa717047.aspx

¾ Transport Extensibility Samples
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa967733.aspx

¾ Channels Extensibility Samples
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa967568.aspx

¾ Message Encoder Extensibility Samples
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa967732.aspx

¾ Instancing Extensibility Samples
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa967565.aspx

¾ Step 25 – Review “Administration and Diagnostics” branch in MSDN documentation (~30 min.)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731055.aspx

¾ Step 26 – Review the following integration and interop scenario guides (~120 min.)

¾ Integrating with COM Applications
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733928.aspx
(especially http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730294.aspx)

¾ Integrating with COM+ Applications
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733094.aspx

¾ Integration with .NET Remoting
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730332.aspx

¾ Interoperability with WSE 3.0
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms734745.aspx

¾ Interoperability with ASP.NET Web Services
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731779.aspx

¾ Step 27 – Review the following migration related articles (~120 min.)

¾ All About ASMX 2.0, WSE 3.0, and WCF (Aaron Skonnard)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/servicestation/default.aspx

¾ Anticipating Adopting the Windows Communication Foundation: Easing Future Migration (From ASP.NET)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa738742.aspx

¾ WCF and ASP.NET Compatibility Mode (Wenlong Dong's Blog)
http://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/archive/2006/01/23/516041.aspx

¾ Migrating ASP.NET Web Services to WCF
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730214.aspx

¾ Migrating WSE 3.0 Web Services to WCF
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms732008.aspx

¾ Step 28 – Read Windows Communication Foundation Transactions Overview to get an understanding of WCF transaction management functionality (~30 min.)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733904.aspx

Follow up by going through Writing a Transactional Application

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229973(vs.80).aspx

¾ Step 29 – Go through Reliable Messaging demystified blog entry by Shy Cohen (~10 min.)

http://blogs.msdn.com/shycohen/archive/2006/02/20/535717.aspx

¾ Step 30 – Listen to Secure, Reliable Transacted Messaging with WCF (Part 1) podcast on Channel 9 (~30 min.)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=173405

¾ Step 31 – Listen to Secure, Reliable Transacted Messaging with WCF (Part 2) podcast on Channel 9 (~30 min.)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=173830

¾ Step 32 – View MSDN TV episode Reliable Messaging in Windows Communication Foundation (~15 min.)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20050825IndigoSC/manifest.xml

¾ Step 33 – Complete “Reliable and Transacted Messaging with the Windows Communication Foundation Virtual Lab” (~90 min.)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032291421&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

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It’s a common problem, that your viewstate is bloating up under heavy usage (complex data editing scenarios with multiple grids enabling editing, etc). ASP.Net 2.0 comes up with a handy solution for such cases by letting you easily redefine your PageStatePersister in your page with (under .NET 1.0/1.1 this could be done using LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium and SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium):

    protected override PageStatePersister PageStatePersister     {         get         {             return new SessionPageStatePersister(this);         }     }

After changing this (and applying a custom base page for all my pages with:

for this to work it is needed to derive all your aspx pages from that page!)

I got the result from ~3500 viewstate bytes to ~1500 viewstate bytes. But what can I do with that 1500 bytes? What is in it? I started ViewStateDecoder 2.1, and checked into it, what I saw was surprising: all usual viewstate data was wiped out, but there were still the controlstate! So it’s not the same as the PersistanceMedium calls as they were formerly… How to get rid of that 1500 byte? After using the Reflector a bit I found out, that all depends on a browser capatibility called RequiresControlStateInSession, when it’s set to true, than the controlstate is persisted into the session as well. Last question was: how to let the system know, that my browser has the RequiresControlStateInSession capatibility? It’s easy with the new syntax for browserCaps:

  <system.web>     <browserCaps>       <case>         RequiresControlStateInSession=true       </case>     </browserCaps>   </system.web>

And the day is saved, now I have a viewstate of a 57 bytes, which contains a pair of a boolean and an ID 🙂

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