C# WCF Dead or alive?
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Dead in many ways. Alive in few ways. Dead - The world has moved away from SOA-WebServices-XML-UDDI etc. Which was like prime for WCF. With Web-API-JSON, it's ultra quick and development ease is like amazing. Asp.net MVC based API has brought things to super cool level. You can , so damn easily manage your URL paths based on different needs, with the "the controllers/actions" in MVC. It's just out of the box. It's highly salable, maintenance , deployment everything is so easy. And mind you, I remember the days, I had spent hours and hours fiddling with issue in Windows Phone Client WCF Async Proxy code. It just sucked like hell. Such a simple thing goes screwed. MS tools were so stupid for the job. Everything is out now. Web-API just made it so lightly coupled. You care a damn about where the services are hosted. No proxy generation , nothing is required. And you can switch between any stack as you want. The client just needs to get updated about the service URL changes. We can do all these in WCF, by patching up the code, but it doesn't look so pro. And guess what, Microsoft is not going to support WCF for REST model. We just hit the wall there. For most of the daily application needs, all we need is just Client-Server model that sends Data. Web-API-JSON combo just fits the need for most of these. So WCF would be dead here in all these. But if you want to go for advanced Customized Network components, WCF is still there. You can fiddle with all Binding, Security, endpoints, etc etc. There are a pile of things you can configure.
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Vunic wrote:
And guess what, Microsoft is not going to support WCF for REST model.
Just implemented that last month. It wasn't the easiest (as with anything WCF), and I would probably use Web Api next time instead, but it works.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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i see a lot of blog posts around the internet that says WCF is Dead, any other thoughts?
I don't think it is dead just set aside. Who knows it may come back when people decide to use it more than it is being used these days.
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Vunic wrote:
And guess what, Microsoft is not going to support WCF for REST model.
Just implemented that last month. It wasn't the easiest (as with anything WCF), and I would probably use Web Api next time instead, but it works.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
The MS folks (Who are in touch with us consulting things) , themselves recommended to move out of WCF long ago saying anything related to REST, will not be updated on WCF. WebAPI is the new way!. So we cleaned up our circus of REST on WCF and moved to WebAPI. You would love it! WebAPI is super cool and simple, for all the basic data transactions it's just more than enough!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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The MS folks (Who are in touch with us consulting things) , themselves recommended to move out of WCF long ago saying anything related to REST, will not be updated on WCF. WebAPI is the new way!. So we cleaned up our circus of REST on WCF and moved to WebAPI. You would love it! WebAPI is super cool and simple, for all the basic data transactions it's just more than enough!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
Ok, then I'll do that instead next time.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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i see a lot of blog posts around the internet that says WCF is Dead, any other thoughts?
They are wrong. WCF is... DEADBORN. So it's hard to say "zombie is alive/not alive", it's just zombie who fed by MS money and enthusiasm of stupids. We already have more than enough - TCP/IP, SOAP, JSON-RPC and even Protocol buffers from Google students. WHY MORE?! I say why - to hold stronger your eggs on MS hooks. Period. No any tech reason exist to jump on another "order of bytes in a stream".
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i see a lot of blog posts around the internet that says WCF is Dead, any other thoughts?
I see a lot of stupid statements on the Internet. While it is certainly true that WCF has fallen out of the shiny favor. But that is far from dead. Many of those probably believe that soon everything on the internet will be done through a restful http interface.
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:laugh: You are the man. That has the potential to send posts to the Abyss! You should have really gone for a clear YATCITA!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
YATCITA?
Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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YATCITA?
Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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As far as I know SignalR is something completely different. SignalR supports two way HTTP(S) requests using web sockets. WCF supports all sorts of communication (through configuration), like HTTP(S), pipes, SOAP, and can, in theory, be used on any host (IIS/WAS, Windows Service, do we have any other flavors?). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Absolutely, much less named pipes and many different forms of authentication. WCF is a bit like XML or Microsoft Office. It can do sooooo much more than most people realize or what most people use it for. When you need it, it's really nice, but often difficult to learn and master. I've been hearing people calling RoR and jQuery dead, but I still find myself using jQuery once in a while.
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Kevin Marois wrote:
Why do hot dogs come in packs of 10, but hot dog buns come in packs of 8??
Buy 8 packs of hot dogs, 10 packs of buns, and invite 80 79 friends for a BBQ. No leftovers.
I think we could get by with 4 packs of hot dogs and 5 packs of buns. 38 friends. I will have two please.
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i see a lot of blog posts around the internet that says WCF is Dead, any other thoughts?
Alive and growing. We are just switching to it for our JSON communication and love it. The configuration is pretty easy now. Used to be harder but now it is simpler. It also has cool AOP features, such as that ability to manipulate all packets before the WCF service even sees it with a message inspector. SignalR might be simpler at first glance, but does it have such AOP features? Can I authenticate all web services in one piece of code without adding a single line of code in each of my services? The feature set of WCF is huge and pretty much blows away anything else on the market.
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i see a lot of blog posts around the internet that says WCF is Dead, any other thoughts?
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Alive and growing. We are just switching to it for our JSON communication and love it. The configuration is pretty easy now. Used to be harder but now it is simpler. It also has cool AOP features, such as that ability to manipulate all packets before the WCF service even sees it with a message inspector. SignalR might be simpler at first glance, but does it have such AOP features? Can I authenticate all web services in one piece of code without adding a single line of code in each of my services? The feature set of WCF is huge and pretty much blows away anything else on the market.
Can you give me some tutorial links please?
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Alive and growing. We are just switching to it for our JSON communication and love it. The configuration is pretty easy now. Used to be harder but now it is simpler. It also has cool AOP features, such as that ability to manipulate all packets before the WCF service even sees it with a message inspector. SignalR might be simpler at first glance, but does it have such AOP features? Can I authenticate all web services in one piece of code without adding a single line of code in each of my services? The feature set of WCF is huge and pretty much blows away anything else on the market.
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i see a lot of blog posts around the internet that says WCF is Dead, any other thoughts?
Personally I prefer message queues these days. Several people have mentioned SignalR, and the hub could be considered a broker of sorts I guess. I've recently used both RabbitMQ (via the EasyNetQ library) and NetMQ to build microservices. For [potentially] load balanced services over a network, I prefer Rabbit. For single-process service containers (sounds strange at first, but we use in-process microservices at work to make individual components completely self-contained, allowing parallel development by many teams) I like using NetMQ with inproc sockets. NetMQ is also capable of TCP connections but IMHO the monitoring tools are not as good as the ones available for Rabbit. So, to answer the original question - is WCF dead? I don't think so. I think it's similar to WPF; not dead, but nobody is really working on new features or improvements either.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
any other thoughts?
Why do hot dogs come in packs of 10, but hot dog buns come in packs of 8??
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Now why didn't I think I that? oh ya, I don't have 79 friends.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
any other thoughts?
Why do hot dogs come in packs of 10, but hot dog buns come in packs of 8??
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Yet Another Thread Careening Into The Abyss. Especially when it contains a bit of objectionalble materials :)
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Can you give me some tutorial links please?
Well, yes. I do happen to blog. Here is a 6 part series (using a Basic Authentication Token Service) that shows how to do JSON enabled web services. By part 3 you get the message inspector. Then in Part 6 you actually get an html/javascript client. [Authentication Token Service for WCF Services (Part 1)](http://www.rhyous.com/2015/02/05/basic-token-service-for-wcf-services-part-1)
