What about the death of WCF as everything else in the modern technological landscape seems to be dying? Is WCF another one? Sorry to butt in, but I figure why waste your time? Or are you wasting it? Is WCF still common and worth learning?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 5:08 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: WCF service best practises 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
