by Alex Meyer-Gleaves
4 October 2009 - 12:44 PM
Congratulations to Christian and Buddhike for their excellent MSDN article: Schema-based Development with Windows Communication Foundation. If you are new to contract-first web service development, or even if you have been practicing it for a while, I am sure you will really enjoy reading this article. It is great to see an article on MSDN that is focused on contract-first and how it can be achieved with WCF. Of course, there is a section dedicated to the WSCF.blue Visual Studio 2008 Add-in.
The diagram below was created for the article, and Christian has also put it on the WSCF.blue homepage on CodePlex.
I really like this diagram, it paints a picture that is very clear and easy to understand. It shows that there is a sequence of steps that are undertaken when doing contract-first development, and highlights that this entire sequence becomes an iterative process. Well done guys!