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.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Migrates WCF Services to CoreWCF
Sam Spencer, Microsoft’s .NET Core team program manager, announced on November 4th, 2022, that the Upgrade Assistant .NET tool now includes a preview of an extension that migrates WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) service code from .NET Framework to .NET Standard targeting .NET 6 and later versions. The WCF code is migrated to the CoreWCF library, an open-source port of WCF for .NET Core.
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CoreWCF Reached Its First GA Release
CoreWCF is a port of Windows Communication Framework (WCF) to .NET Core. The goal of this project is to enable existing WCF projects to move to .NET Core. After 21 months of public development, CoreWCF has reached its first GA release.
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WF and WCF Given to the Community
After years of uncertainty, Microsoft has made the decision to officially hand off control of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and server-side Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to the community.
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Unclear Plans for Server-Side WCF Continues to Frustrate .NET Developers
Microsoft continues to be non-committal on the topic of server-side WCF. After giving the impression that server-side WCF is a dead technology, a Microsoft employee quickly stated patience is needed, while not actually contradicting the earlier announcement.
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Using Your WinForms/WPF Code to Vote for .NET Core 3.0 Features
In May we reported Microsoft wants to run WinForms and WPF on .NET Core 3.0. In order to facilitate this, they are building a new tool that will allow you to vote on which APIs they need to port to .NET Core. But this isn’t a direct vote; it is based on what APIs are being used by your application.
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Comparing WCF Performance to ASP.NET Core
One would expect to find that ASP.NET Core has better performance than older technologies like Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Developers have setup a comparison between the two technologies to see if this indeed the case.
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Highlights for the Upcoming .NET Framework 4.7.2
Though most of the attention is on .NET Core, development continues on the original .NET Framework. Microsoft has recently released a preview of .NET Framework 4.7.2 with updates to ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WCF, WPF, and even Windows Forms.
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Microsoft Adds Cross-Platform Support for Azure Relay Hybrid Connections
Microsoft recently announced that their Azure Relay Hybrid Connections service has reached General Availability. The Azure Relay Hybrid Connections service, which is WebSocket-based, complements the existing Azure Service Bus Relay offering which is now being referred to as WCF Relays.
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WCF is Open Source
The .NET Foundation has just announced the release of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) as open source. WCF, originally offered in .NET 3.0, offers a high-level abstraction over cross-application communication.
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Building a Better WCF Client
The WCF client that Visual Studio generates by default is a problem. Besides not being a direct match with the server-side interface code, which causes a lot of code and data sharing problems, the generated code still has a glaring bug after all these years. Michael Taylor discusses these issue and his attempts to address them in a series titled “A Smarter WCF Service Client”.
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WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Adds Entity Framework 6 Support
The recently released WCF Data Services 5.6.0 provides support for Entity Framework 6 and provides an option either to upgrade or create nww OData services to target EF 6.
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Announcing Open RIA Services
WCF RIA Services will soon be rereleased under the Apache 2 license as Open RIA Services. In preparation for this some functionality is being dropped from Visual Studio 2013.
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WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Released with Client Hooks and Instance Annotations on Atom Payloads
Microsoft has announced the availability of WCF Data Services 5.4.0 release candidate with new features and several bug fixes.
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WCF Data Services 5.3.0 with Instance Annotations and request URL
Microsoft has released WCF Data Services 5.3.0 with support for instance annotations in JSON payloads, modifying request URL in the OnStartProcessingRequest method including few bug fixes.
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Microsoft Refreshed .NET Framework 4.5 with Updates
Microsoft has recently released updates for .NET Framework 4.5 which fixes reliability, compatibility, stability, and performance issues associated with WPF, CLR, Windows Forms, XML, NCL, ASP.NET, WWF, WCF and Entity Framework.