Related PDC Sessions for WCF and Workflow

Four talks each for WCF and WF, only one pair of which have conflicting times.

Here are the WCF talks with their schedules:

Accelerating Applications Using Windows HPC Server 2008 by Ming Xu in 502A on Tuesday at 1:30 PM

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.

Windows Identity Foundation Overview by Vittorio Bertocci in 403AB on Wednesday at 11:30 AM

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.

Networking and Web Services in Microsoft Silverlight by Yavor Georgiev in Hall E on Wednesday at 3:15 PM

This session presents an overview of how to expose data to a Silverlight application by accessing SOAP Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and REST services. In the WCF space, we cover Silverlight 3 approaches for securing services and improving their performance and maintainability. We 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 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.

What’s New for Windows Communication Foundation 4 by Ed Pinto in Petree Hall D on Thursday at 10:00 AM

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.

Here are the WF talks with their schedules:

Spice Up Your Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation 4 by Matt Winkler in 515A on Wednesday at 2:00 PM

Discover how your applications can achieve a new degree of flexibility, transparency, and end-user control with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Expose tailored, productive authoring experiences for your users to define business and application logic with new capabilities in WF 4, including simplified designer rehosting and enhanced activity and designer programming models to create domain-specific libraries of activities. Understand the options available for hosting WF and extending the runtime to add control and application visibility and see how customers are already workflow-enabling their solutions with WF 4.

Windows Workflow Foundation 4 from the Inside Out by Bob Schmidt in 515A on Wednesday at 3:15 PM

See why Windows Workflow Foundation 4 is a powerful platform for simplifying application coordination logic and state management. Learn about the core runtime abstractions and under-the-hood improvements related to areas such as performance, transactions, and persistence. Get insights and techniques that enhance your investments in Workflow.

Workflow Services and “Dublin” by Mark Fussell in Petree Hall D on Thursday at 11:30 AM

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.

Application Server Extensibility with Microsoft Project Code Name “Dublin” and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 by Nicholas Allen in Petree Hall D on Thursday at 1:45 PM

.NET 4 and “Dublin” provide new application hosting, tracking, and persistence capabilities. Learn the benefits of different hosting options and how to choose the right option for your scenario. Learn about custom tracking providers and how the built-in tracking system can be extended to meet your custom business data monitoring requirements. Learn about the new subsystem for managing durable application state using Microsoft SQL Server or custom application-specific stores.