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mhenrixon
mhenrixon

Reputation: 6278

How should I use namespaces in WCF contracts?

After reading this, this and this I think I somewhat get what they mean with versioning data contracts. Is it so that the recommended approach is to have my data and message contracts implement an interface and set the DataContract(Name = "SameValue") for different namespaces?? I would then create a new class with the same name and a different contract? If that is correct it's almost too easy to be true. The reason I am asking is that I want to smoke test the client against the production service and fail startup if the contracts are newer than the service.

Does anyone have any further recommendations / readings?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1739

Answers (1)

Chris Hawkins
Chris Hawkins

Reputation: 802

Yes, that attribute allows for versioning of your contract.

Decent article for best practices on handling change in WCF.

Upvotes: 2

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