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Gabriel Baptista
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Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
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Francesco Abbruzzese
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Francesco Abbruzzese

Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
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How does .NET 8 deal with SOA?

WCF technology has not been ported to .NET 5+ and there are no plans to perform a complete port of it. Part of the source code was donated, and an open-source project started out of it. You can find information about this project at https://github.com/CoreWCF/CoreWCF. Instead, Microsoft is investing in gRPC, Google’s open-source technology. Besides, .NET 8 has excellent support for REST services through ASP.NET Core.

There is a tool developed by Microsoft to help you with the migration of WCF applications to the latest .NET. You can find it at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/migration-wcf-to-corewcf-upgrade-assistant/.

The main reasons behind the decision to abandon WCF are as follows:

  • As we have already discussed, SOAP technology has been overtaken by REST technology in most application areas.
  • WCF technology is strictly tied to Windows, so it would be very expensive to reimplement all its features from...
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Gabriel Baptista

Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
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Francesco Abbruzzese

Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
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