C# WCF Dead or alive?
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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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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)
