I mentioned the things to focus in other post. This time it was easy for me as I have worked with WCF stuffs in my professional work, which help to grow the confidence. I took preparation from the MCTS Self Paced Training  Kit. But I faced several things which the book doesn’t contain specifically. Here are the list  -

1. IServiceBehavior, IEndPointBehavior, IClientMessageInspector, IParameterInspector,  SecurityTokenAuthenticator, ServiceAuthorizationManager, ServiceKnownType, behaviorExtensions, mtomMessageEncoding, SyndicationFeed

2. Logical vs. Physical Addresses (listenUri) – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163412.aspx

3. Service Configuration for COM+ Application.

4. Service method invoked from web browser using – WebGet/UriTemplate

5. How to Stream – Service operation+Configuration

For example, the following query will return both ‘E1′/’e1′

SELECT * from tblProduct
WHERE ProductName = ‘E1′

For case sensitive text matching you need to set the following collation after the column name

SELECT * from tblProduct
WHERE ProductName = ‘E1′ COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS

Here are some suggestions for the exam -

• Focus on the core of WCF – ABC. That means Address-Binding-Contract. See several articles from MSDN – Service Station. e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/07/ServiceStation/

• Learn in depth of WCF-Binding. Different types of Binding – their usages scenario, different features included in each binding. [BasicHttpBinding, WSHttpBinding, NetTcpBinging etc.]

• How to configure ABC in the XML configuration file – in depth. ServiceContract, OperationContract, ServiceBehavior, CallBackContract, AsyncPattern etc.,

• Reliable session, Instance mode, multi-thread, Thread safety in WCF Service.

• Security – Authentication/Authorization, clientCredentialType, Transport/Message security in both client & service.

• Callback & Asynchronous operation.

• Adding custom behavior on both client/service programmatically / Configuration file

• Creating client proxy class and adding different types of behavior in it – Transaction, Callback, Session, Security, MessageHeader etc.

• Serialization – DataContract/XmlSerializerFormat. DataContract versioning

• ServiceHost, SvcUtil.exe

• Metadata publishing – WSDL, Ws-Policy, MEX

• Debugging, Instrumentation, message Tracing in WCF Service

• Interoperability with ASMX

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expression() accepts a JavaScript expression as its parameter , and returns that as the value of the property in question. In the case above, it means the DIV will have a height that’s same as - ‘OtherDiv’ HTML element.