Does WCF raise the bar or just the complexity level? [closed]

Answer 1

I don't see it mentioned often enough, but you can still implement fairly simple services with WCF, very similar to ASMX services. For example:

[ServiceContract]
[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
public class SimpleService
{
    [OperationContract]
    public string HelloWorld()
    {
        return "Hello World";
    }

}

You still have to register the end point in your web.config, but that's not so bad.

Eliminating the verbosity of the separated data, service, and operation contracts goes a long way toward making WCF more manageable for me.