List of Figures

Chapter 1: The Moon is Blue

Figure 1-1: Current application topology at Contoso, Ltd.

Figure 1-2: A service-oriented alternative

Figure 1-3: WCF in context

Chapter 2: Service Orientation

Figure 2-1: Message flow at Contoso Boomerang Corporation

Figure 2-2: Message flow at Contoso Boomerang Corporation with a messaging router

Figure 2-3: A simple message exchange

Figure 2-4: A traditional component-oriented application

Figure 2-5: Scaling a component-oriented application

Figure 2-6: Using services

Chapter 3: Message Exchange Patterns, Topologies, and Choreographies

Figure 3-1: The datagram MEP

Figure 3-2: The Request/Reply MEP

Figure 3-3: The Duplex MEP

Figure 3-4: Forward-only point-to-point message topology

Figure 3-5: Brokered topology

Figure 3-6: Peer-to-peer topology

Chapter 4: WCF 101

Figure 4-1: Endpoints, addresses, bindings, contracts, and behaviors

Figure 4-2: The ServiceModel layer and the Channel layer

Figure 4-3: How the ABCs of WCF influence the ServiceModel layer and the Channel layer

Chapter 6: Channels

Figure 6-1: A typical channel stack

Figure 6-2: The channel state machine embodied in CommunicationObject

Figure 6-3: Channel stack with a WS-ReliableMessaging protocol channel

Figure 6-4: A shaping channel

Chapter 7: Channel Managers

Figure 7-1: The channel listener stack

Chapter 10: Dispatchers and Clients

Figure 10-1: The roles of a ChannelDispatcher object

Figure 10-2: ChannelDispatcher anatomy.

Figure 10-3: EndpointDispatcher anatomy

Figure 10-4: DispatchRuntime anatomy