Course 6461A: Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation
Slightly off-track from my Microsoft Certification plan to gain an MCTS/MCPD in ASP.NET Applications, but the company I work for sent me on an the official Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Course 6461A which is three days long, and instructor-led.
The reasons for this is because we have quite a variety of systems that are all currently tightly coupled, and code is mostly copied rather than shared (uh-oh). We have the task of decoupling this mess(!), and our aim is to introduce a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using… WCF, hence sending me on this course!
I have to say, I’m not sure whether it is just our training provider, but these official Microsoft courses that are “instructor-led” might as well not be instructor led since the majority of the course time is spent following the official text, and unless you have an out of the ordinary question, then unfortunately the instructor is underused!
Overall though, the course was a really great insight and overview into WCF and sparked many ideas for the situation I am about to embark on at work!
I even realised that this course is the only prerequisite to MCTS Exam 70-503: Windows Communication Foundation Application Development. So I might well take my course book and practice it to take this exam too – makes sense.