The only reason I accept WCF because I think that if needed my server side can be easily ported to a web service for example.

All other things I can easily do without or simulate with good all fashion remoting which I believe is the best technology out there.

My objections with WCF is that that tried to implement eveyring under one unified library, with one configuration file. The result is that in order to use it, you must become proficient in at least the configuration of WCF and its various security features and bindings.

When I’m interested to build something that runs only with a tcp/ip remoting what do I care about web and all other things that are implemented in WCF. Don’t get me wrong, I believe in the combined power of WCF, but I really thing that they should have splitted it.

One of things I really can’t understand is that of Known types. Why oh why should I tell WCF about all possible types I will probably pass through the channel? I think it is , to be able to use it in mex, and create the appropriate proxy. Stupid I say. Make it easier tou create the proxy, shate the objects types as You should, and serialize based on the actual instance type passed to the method, just like remoting does.

I’m saying these because in my case, I needed to have only one interface, with a base class in its declaration, and then to be able to pass anything I want, derived from that class. I can’t describe you the flexibility that these gives me, and how I can implement it in a framework, and nobody must know about WCF. But doing the above just caused a lot of problems, because the transported types where not known at the framework level.

Did you know that because of this reason WCF cant transfer a dataset with a column that has type of object? There is a reason that object is used in declarations, and the reason is that I do not know in advance what I will put in it.

I think that in NET3 microsoft did a lot of stupid things that partly undo some of the great features of .NET2

It’s just amazingly disappointing as I’m working through this new technology stack (Silverlight / wcf). The technology is becoming less extensible, less performant, less useful and, quite frankly, less useful.

Sorry about the rant….I’m just frustrated with these new ‘technologies’.

I heavyly use batch files and post build events.