WCF: The right way. A Quick Reference Guide.

Introduction

Miguel Castro (MC from now on) gives a compelling argument why the included project templates for WCF Service Applications "creates too much baggage" and does not promote "best practices". He continues by suggesting adding service references is also "falling a bit short". To put it in context he notes that WCF "is probably one of the absolutely coolest technologies to come out of Microsoft".

The WCF template method does not separate the contracts, tightly couples the service to a web-service (although other transports can be used), web-service webconfig contains too much metadata, and service references duplicate contracts.

A summary of MC’s Critique can be found here. What turns this article into a constructive exercise is he also outlines a manual way of creating and consuming WCF services: that is loosely coupled, follows good design standards, and most importantly, is simple to maintain. This article breaks his process into a concise developer workflow, broken into distinct actions and steps - a Quick Reference Guide.

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