MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows® Applications Using Microsoft® .NET Framework 4

Objective 1.2: Design Service Interaction

Services, by their nature, must be designed for use by other developers. Because other developers will be working with your web service, you must pay particular attention to its design, especially the service granularity, cohesion, protocols, contracts, and binding types. Because web services are as vulnerable to attack as a website, you must use data validation to manage your data integrity carefully.

This objective provides detailed information about designing web services.

This objective covers how to:

• Design service and method granularity.

• Choose protocols and binding types.

• Use Representational State Transfer (REST).

• Use message and data contracts.

• Use custom Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) headers. ...