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Windows Communications Foundation (Indigo): Developing Manageable Web Services Alex Weinert COM308 Lead Program Manager Windows Communication Foundation Microsoft Corporation About This Talk Manageability principles Built in WCF Management Features How you can make your WCF services more manageable Energy And Entropy The Life And Times… HUMAN Conceptualization Conception Birth Childhood Teen Angst Productive Years The Golden Years SOFTWARE Design/Arch Development Deployment Configuration Troubleshooting Monitoring Reconfiguration WCFWhat WE do for IT pros Configuration system which allows post-deployment tuning and control of many aspects of service Tracing sources provide traces for service internals, logged messages, activities Performance counters for key operation, security, reliability, transaction statistics WMI Provider allows scriptable query support for all aspects of running services Windows Event Log helps with diagnosis of deployment problems Configuration Editor and Trace Viewer in the SDK simplify common IT Pro tasks Demo Scenario: Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress (With the kind permission of St. Martin’s Press) Digital Fortress Digital Fortress WCF Management Features Tools Cheat Sheet You’ll find the tools in “\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\WinFX\bin” Trace Viewer: SvcTraceViewer Configuration Editor: SvcConfigEditor You must override strong name validation to use the svcConfigEditor. From a command prompt type: “sn –Vr svcConfigEditor.exe” The Challenge We are putting basic instrumentation, control mechanisms, diagnostics “in the box” with WCF Much of what you’ve had to code in the past is now done for you in the framework You’ll get manageable Web Services with WCF even if you don’t code for manageability You can raise the bar for manageability! Now that you don’t need to write timer code to determine latency, throughput, error rates… What can you do with that same investment? What YOU Do For IT Pros Management interfaces expose key insights and