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Guidelines and Best Practices
Visual Studio 2008
This section contains topics that provide guidelines for creating Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications.
In This Section
- Best Practices: Data Contract Versioning
- Explains how and when to create data contracts that do not break when future versions are created.
- Service Versioning
- Explains how to consider versioning in WCF. After deployment, services (and the endpoints they expose) might need to be changed, for example, to satisfy changing business requirements or IT requirements, or to fix issues. Each change introduces a new version of the service.
- Load Balancing
- Lists guidelines for load balancing with a Web farm.
- Controlling Resource Consumption and Improving Performance
- Describes the properties that are designed to help prevent undue resource consumption and improve security and points to more complete information about their use.
- Deploying WCF Applications with ClickOnce
- Describes the considerations to be made when using the ClickOnce feature.
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Last Published: 2010-03-21
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