Microsoft 70-487: Manage packages by using NuGet

Exam Objectives

Create and configure a NuGet package; install and update an existing NuGet package; connect to a local repository cache for NuGet, set up your own package repository

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-487 - Chapter 5.4
[Software] Nuget Package Explorer, Source
[MSDN] NuGet Documentation:
     -PowerShell Reference
     -Package Creation Workflow
     -Hosting your own NuGet feeds
[Wikipedia] Nuget
[PluralSight] Introduction to NuGet

Microsoft 70-487: Create and configure a WCF service on Azure

Exam Objectives

Create and configure bindings for WCF services (Azure SDK—extensions to WCF); relay bindings to Azure using service bus endpoints; integrate with the Azure service bus relay; host services in Azure (from 3.9);

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-487 - Chapter 3.7
[MSDN] How to use Azure Relay WCF relays with .NET
[MSDN] Azure WCF Relay tutorial
[MSDN] What is Azure Relay?
[Blog] Azure WCF Web role over http with wshttpbinding

[PluralSight] WCF Power Topics - Working with the Azure Service Bus
[Blog] Deploying A WCF Service On Windows Azure
[Blog] Deploying an Existing WCF Service to Azure

My post on Messaging Patterns

Microsoft 70-487: Host and manage services

Exam Objectives

Manage services concurrency (single, multiple, reentrant); create service hosts; choose a hosting mechanism; choose an instancing mode (per call, per session, singleton); activate and manage a service by using AppFabric; implement transactional services; host services in an Azure worker role

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-487 - Chapter 3.9
[MSDN] Sessions, Instancing, and Concurrency
[MSDN] How to: Create a Transactional Service
[CodeProject] WCF Concurrency
[MSDN] Hosting
[MSDN] Deploying an Internet Information Services-Hosted WCF Service
[MSDN] How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service
[DotNetCurry] Hosting WCF Service in Windows Server AppFabric
[Blog] Deploying A WCF Service On Windows Azure
[Blog] Deploying an Existing WCF Service to Azure

[PluralSight] WCF End-to-End -

    Hosting and Service Configuration     
    Instancing and Concurrency
    Transaction Handling
[PluralSight] WCF Advanced Topics

Microsoft 70-487: Secure a WCF service

Exam Objectives

Implement message level security, implement transport level security; implement certificates; design and implement multiple authentication modes

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-487 - Chapter 3.4
[Book] Programming WCF Services - Ch. 10: Security
[MSDN] Programming WCF Security
[MSDN] Message Security in WCF
[MSDN] Transport Security
[MSDN] Working with Certificates
[MSDN] Improving Web Service Security - Chapter 7, Chapter 5 (Auth)
[MSDN] How to: Use Certificate Authentication and Transport Security in WCF
[CodeProject] Nine simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF

[PluralSight] WCF End-to-End - Securing Services
[PluralSight] WCF Design Concepts - Security

Microsoft 70-487: Implement messaging patterns

Exam Objectives

Implement one way, request/reply, streaming, and duplex communication; implement Azure Service Bus and Azure Queues

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-487 - Chapter 3.8

[MSDN] One-Way Service, How to create, One-Way
[MSDN] Request/Reply Service, How to create
[MSDN] Duplex Service, How to create
[MSDN] Streaming Message Transfer
[MSDN] Large Data and Streaming
[MSDN] Using Service Bus Queues with WCF
[MSDN-Blog] My Hello Azure Service Bus WCF Service
[MSDN] Azure Service Bus
[Blog] WCF Best Practices: One way is not always really one way
[PluralSight] WCF End-to-End - Operations

My post on Creating a Service

Microsoft 70-487: Version a WCF service

Exam Objectives

Version different types of contracts (message, service, data); configure address, binding, and routing service versioning

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-487 - Chapter 3.6
[Book] Programming WCF Services - Ch. 3: Data Contracts
[MSDN] Versioning Strategies
[MSDN] Best Practices: Data Contract Versioning
[MSDN] Using Message Contracts (Versioning section)
[MSDN] How To: Service Versioning (Routing)
[CodeProject] WCF Routing Service - Part IV: Service Versioning

[PluralSight] WCF Power Topics - Versioning Your Services

Microsoft 70-487: Consume WCF services

Exam Objectives

Generate proxies by using SvcUtil; generate proxies by creating a service reference; create and implement channel factories

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-487 - Chapter 3.5
[Book] Programming WCF Services

[MSDN] Clients

[MSDN] Accessing Services Using a WCF Client
[CSharpCorner] Channel Factory in WCF

PluralSight WCF Library
My github repo for WCF Examples

Microsoft 70-487: Configure WCF services by using the API

Exam Objectives

Configure service behaviors; configure service endpoints; configure binding; specify a service contract; expose service metadata (XSDs, WSDL, and metadata exchange); WCF routing and discovery features

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-487 - Chapter 3.3
[Book] Programming WCF Services (in particular, Appendix C: Discovery)
[MSDN] Configuring WCF Services in Code (.NET 4.5+)

[MSDN] How to: Publish Metadata for a Service Using Code

[MSDN] How to: Create a Service Endpoint in Code
[MSDN] WCF Discovery
[MSDN] Routing

PluralSight WCF Library - WCF Power Topics in particular (routing and discovery)
My post on file based config

My github repo for WCF Examples