Best practices for versioning your services with WCF?

wcf versioning backwards-compatibility
Toran Billups picture Toran Billups · Aug 31, 2008 · Viewed 11.2k times · Source

I'm starting to work with my model almost exclusively in WCF and wanted to get some practical approaches to versioning these services over time. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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Espo picture Espo · Aug 31, 2008

There is a good writeup on Craig McMurtry's WebLog. Its from 2006, but most of it is still relevant.

As well as a decision tree to walk through the choices, he shows how to implement those changes using Windows Communication Foundation

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