Developing Windows Azure and Web Services (M20487)

1. Overview of Service and Cloud Technologies

• Key components of distributed applications
• Data and data access technologies
• Service technologies
• Cloud computing
• Exploring Blue Yonder Airlines’ travel companion application

2. Querying and Manipulating Data Using Entity Framework

• ADO.NET Overivew
• Creating an entity data model
• Querying data
• Manipulating data

3. Creating and Consuming ASP.NET Web API Services

• What are HTTP services?
• Creating an ASP.NET Web API service
• Handling HTTP requests and responses
• Hosting and consuming ASP.NET Web API services

4. Extending and Securing ASP.NET Web API Services

• ASP.NET Web API request pipeline
• Creating OData services
• Implementing security in ASP.NET Web API services
• Injecting dependencies into controllers

5. Creating WCF Services

• Advantages of creating services with WCF
• Creating and implementing a contract
• Configuring and hosting WCF services
• Consuming WCF services

6. Hosting Services

• Hosting Services On-Premise
• Hosting Services in Windows Azure

7. Windows Azure Service Bus

• Windows Azure Service Bus Relays
• Windows Azure Service Bus Queues
• Windows Azure Service Bus Topics

8. Deploying Services

• Web Deployment with Visual Studio 2012
• Creating and Deploying Web Application Packages
• Command-Line Tools for Web Deploy
• Deploy Web and Service Applications to Windows Azure
• Continuous Delivery with TFS and Git
• Best Practices for Production Deployment

9. Windows Azure Storage

• Introduction to Windows Azure Storage
• Windows Azure Blot Storage
• Windows Azure Table Storage
• Windows Queue Storage
• Restricting Access to Windows Azure Storage

10. Monitoring and Diagnostics

• Performing diagnostics using tracing
• Configuring service diagnostics
• Monitoring services using Windows Azure diagnostics
• Collecting Windows Azure metrics

11. Identity Management and Access Control

• Claim-based identity concepts
• Using the Windows Azure Access Control Service
• Configuring services to use federated identities

12. Scaling Services

• Introduction to Scalability
• Load balancing
• Scaling on-premise services with distributed cache
• Windows Azure caching
• Scaling globally

13. Appendix A: Designing and Extending WCF Services

• Applying Design Principles to Service Contracts
• Handling Distributed Transactions
• Extending the WCF Pipeline

14. Appendix B: Implementing Security in WCF Services

• Introduction to Web Services Security
• Transport Security
• Message Security
• Configuring Services Authentication and Authorization

• Describe the basic concepts of service development and data access strategies using the .NET platform.
• Describe the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and its compute, data, and application hosting offerings.
• Design and develop a data-centric application using Visual Studio 2017 and Entity Framework Core.
• Design, implement, and consume HTTP services using ASP.NET Core.
• Extend HTTP services using ASP.NET Core.
• Host services on-premises and in Microsoft Azure.
• Deploy services to both on-premises and cloud environments and manage the interface and policy for their services.
• Choose a data storage solution, cache, distribute, and synchronize data.
• Monitor, log, and troubleshoot services.
• Describe claim-based identity concepts and standards, and implement authentication and authorization with Azure Active Directory.
• Create scalable service applications.

Lab 1: Explore the Work Environment

• Describe the key components of distributed applications
• Describe data and data access technologies
• Explain service technologies
• Describe the features and functionalities of cloud computing
• Describe the architecture and working of the Blue Yonder Airlines Travel Companion application

Lab 2: Querying and Manipulating Data Using Entity Framework

• ADO.NET Overview
• Creating an Entity data model
• Query data
• Manipulating data

Lab 3: Create the Travel Reservation ASP.NET Web API Service

• Design Services by using the HTTP protocol
• Create services by using ASP.NET Web API
• Use the HttpRequestMessage/HttpResponseMessage classes to control HTTP messages.
• Host and consume ASP.NET Web API services.

Lab 4: Extend Travel Companion’s ASP.NET Web API Services

• Extend the ASP.NET Web API request and response pipeline.
• Create OData services using ASP.NET Web API.
• Secure ASP.NET Web API.
• Inject dependencies into ASP.NET Web API controllersSecure the communication between client and server

Lab 5: Create and Consume the WCF Booking Service

• Describe why and when to use WCF to create services.
• Define a service contract and implement it.
• Host and configure a WCF service.
• Consume a WCF service from a client application.

Lab 6: Hosting Services

• Host services on-premises by using Windows services and IIS
• Host services in the Windows Azure cloud environment by using Windows Azure Cloud Services and Web Sites

Lab 7: Windows Azure Service Bus

• Windows Azure Service Bus Relays
• Windows Azure Service Bus Queues
• Windows Azure Service Bus Topics

Lab 8: Deploying Services

• Deploy web applications with Visual Studio.
• Create and deploy web applications by using IIS Manager.
• Deploy web applications by using the command line.
• Deploy web applications to Windows Azure environments.
• Use continuous delivery with TFS and Git.
• Apply best practices for deploying web applications on-premises and to Windows Azure.

Lab 9: Windows Azure Storage

• Describe the architecture of Windows Azure Storage.
• Implement Blob Storage in your applications.
• Use Table Storage in your applications
• Describe how to use Windows Azure Queues as a communication mechanism between different parts of your application
• Control access to your storage items.

Lab 10: Monitoring and Diagnostics

• Perform tracing in the .NET Framework with the System.Diagnostics namespace.
• Configure and explore web service and IIS tracing.
• Monitor services by using Windows Azure Diagnostics.
• View and collect Windows Azure metrics in the management portal.

Lab 11: Identity Management and Access Control

• Describe the basic principles of claims-based identity.
• Create a Security Token Service (STS) by using Windows Azure ACS.
• Configure WCF to use federated identity.

Lab 12: Scalability

• Explain the need for scalability.
• Describe how to use load balancing for scaling services.
• Describe how to use distributed caching for on-premises as well as Windows Azure services.
• Describe how to use Windows Azure caching.
• Describe how to scale services globally.Lab 13: Appendix A: Designing and Extending WCF Services
• Design and create services and clients to use different kinds of message patterns.
• Configure a service to support distributed transactions.
• Extend the WCF pipeline with runtime components, custom behaviors, and extensible objects.

Lab 14: Appendix B: Security a WCF Service

• Describe web application security.
• Configure a service for transport security.
• Configure a service for message security.
• Implement and configure authentication and authorization logic.

• Experience with C# programming, including Lambda expressions, LINQ, and anonymous types
• Understanding the concepts of n-tier applications
• Experience with querying and manipulating data with ADO.NET
• Knowledge of XML data structures
• Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 (M20480)
• Developing ASP.NET 4.5 MVC Web Applications (M20486)

Novice and experienced .NET developers with a minimum of six months programming experience and want to learn how to develop services and deploy them to hybrid environments.

Secondary: .NET developers with Web application development experience who are exploring developing new applications or porting existing applications to Microsoft Azure.