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by sudioStudio64 4050 days ago
Couldn't they move to a more code and convention driven config system?

I know what you mean, though. I have this one web service that's the bane of my existence. No WSDL, it's WS-Transfer and MEX and WS-Sec with it's own STS...makes me weep thinking about it.
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useerup 4050 days ago
WCF does allow for code based configuration. There are actually 3 way to configure everything in WCF: Imperative code, Declarative attributes and (xml-based) config files.

Conventions are supported as well, but is woefully underused.

That said, WCF is a beast. If you need SOAP with federated security and bells and whistles, it is a very solid choice.

If you can make it through with REST you should avoid WCF. It is a time sink.

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anton_gogolev 4050 days ago
Again, very unlikely.

It will either be a godawful Fluent API on top of all the WCF craziness, or the conventions will be as unusable as they are in Entity Framework.

Old-style ASMX services were cool. Nothing fancy, no infinitely configurable doodads: just a single class annotated with attributes.

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