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by Glide 4050 days ago
WCF is very powerful and a piece of frustration. What's interesting is that most people have shared the common use of WCF which is interacting with Web Services and being JSON endpoints. There are better alternatives to make JSON endpoints in .NET. If you're using Web Services you're kind of stuck. So for a lot of people this is going to be useful.

WCF is broad. Mind-bogglingly broad. I was in a project on we were implementing a P2P system on top of WCF and WCF has some mesh capability built in. Being able to use the same API for HTTP requests feels odd. Once I understood the breadth of what it can do it really lives up to its name. Unfortunately, it wasn't a focused API for most of what people needed it for.