[mattmanser]

They were a bit of a nightmare. Fun highlights:

    - IsBooleanPropertyIncludedBoolean
    - Massive, incredibly slow to build libraries
    - Check everything in case it was null
    - Never really sure what was wrong when it went wrong

There was quite a massive cognitive overhead and overkill for often querying one little thing.

Also they'd sometimes break and you'd have to hand edit the wsdl's to get them to work again (at least salesforce used to break theirs every now and again, the wsdl would be incompatible with the .Net tool because of certain character not escaping properly).

[tomc1985]

Well, when correctly implemented, working with WSDLs can be almost pleasant