Exam Ref 70-487: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services

Objective 3.9: Host and manage services

Fundamentally, WCF Services are merely a .NET type with a few specific attributes applied to it. You can use a service type just as you would any other class, but that generally defeats the purpose because it adds overhead without adding any value. To be of value, a service needs to be hosted, which places it in a separate process from the client and enables multiple clients to interact with it.

This objective covers how to:

• Manage services concurrency

• Choose an instancing mode

• Create service hosts

• Choose a hosting mechanism

• Create transactional services

• Host services in a Windows Azure worker role

Managing services concurrency

Chances are that any service you create will be consumed by more than one consumer at ...