September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 16m
English
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Chapter 3. Messaging and Transaction
This chapter will cover:
- Creating a pure WCF service
- Receiving and replying a WCF message
- Receiving and replying to a WCF message in code workflow
- Sending and receiving a reply to a WCF message
- Sending and receiving a reply to a WCF message in code workflow
- Using CancellationScope activity
- Performing a transaction by using TransactionScope activity
- Performing compensation by using Compensable activity
- Performing manual compensation by using Compensate activity
- Performing confirmation by using Confirm activity
Introduction
In a traditional imperative program language such as C#, if one wished to send/receive message to/from a remote location, one was expected to write a lot of code, have thorough knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, ...