Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed

Chapter 4. Sessions, Reliable Sessions, Queues, and Transactions

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• Introduction

• Reliable Sessions

• Session Management

• Queued Delivery

• Transactions

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Introduction

This chapter covers an assortment of facilities that the Windows Communication Foundation provides for making systems more robust. Those features are Reliable Sessions, session management, queued delivery, and transaction flow. Besides introducing each feature, this chapter shows how to use them together to properly implement distributed, transactional systems.

Reliable Sessions

The Windows Communication Foundation’s Reliable Sessions facility is for providing assurances at the binding level that messages will be delivered exactly once, and in order. ...