Folks, I have created the stub of a WCF service that I've sanity checked is working okay when hosted in IIS, Azure, a Windows Service and even the command promt. It will be consumed by desktop apps and Silverlight. The initial code came out of the VS2012 new project template and I just started adding methods. It mostly moves plain POCO and DTO classes back-and-forth to manipulate a database.
Before I go any further, I just wanted to check here that I'm not missing any recent advances in techniques for writing WCF services that will "future proof" it, follow best practises and make life easier for myself. So I'm just fishing for general comments from anyone who was written some "serious" services. Web searches produce these links, but I haven't had time to digest them yet: http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/gerben/archive/2010/02/01/wcf-best-practices.aspx http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/317232/How-to-Build-Flexible-and-Reusable-WCF-Services http://www.devproconnections.com/article/windows-communication-foundation-wcf2/Implementing-SOA-Patterns-with-WCF-and-NET-4-0-125163 (and many more) Greg
