Comments on: Angle Brackets are Dead. Long Live XML.

By: Yaron Naveh

Yaron Naveh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:13:26 +0000

This is also a great example of how design patterns produce better frameworks. The XmlReader/Writer apply the "Builder" pattern which turned out to be very useful.

By: MurrayWalensky

MurrayWalensky — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:48:39 +0000

I used to agree with OldSchool until I developed some interfaces that were completely broken by WCF sp1. I have a lot of experience writing enterprise code and for 6 years I worked for a very large software company in the Pacific Northwest you have heard of.

I can tell you a bunch of devs there would not use WCF because of this. I’ve also studied the WCF code base a little and I am horrified by the lack of if statements. One of the first things I look for in a code base is if statements because that means there is probably error handling.

Finally, you’ll notice BizTalk is not written in WCF. BizTalk is easily one of the best products Microsoft has ever created. Sure they added some WCF adapters but the core is not WCF because WCF doesn’t scale and it’s not as intuitive as the BizTalk Adapters and Pipelines which are enterprise strength because they are built with COM and use COM features like Transactions.

By: OldSchool

OldSchool — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:43:03 +0000

This is awesome. One time I overrode ToString() to look up its value from a central web server. That way I knew who was using my code and that they were using it right. That's why I'm a big fan of you overriding WriteBase64 and completely ignoring the need for it to actually be base64. Brilliant!

I also like the check for "rawBytes". Some people get mad at me when I ovverode equals so that it failed unless you put in a magic string. I'm glad to that WCF uses the same logic I do.

By: Angle Brackets Are Dead. Long Live XML. - Jesse Ezell Blog

Angle Brackets Are Dead. Long Live XML. - Jesse Ezell Blog — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:42:07 +0000

[...] Long Live XML. New post on how WCF supports multiple formats under the covers in a uniform way: http://blog.iserviceoriented.com/index.php/2010/02/07/angle-brackets-are-dead-long-live-xml/ Published Sunday, February 07, 2010 4:39 PM by Jesse Ezell Filed under: .NET, WCF, [...]