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Does WCF make your life easier or harder? Do you think it’s beautiful in nature or should you avoid its ugliness like the plague?
I like the idea of supporting REST + SOAP interfaces with simple binding configurations (ala webHttpEndpoint / basicHttpBinding). I do miss the ASMX days, but SVC seems like it’s here to stay.
WCF + MVC are also great combination to build host factories and custom service routing (ala ServiceHostFactory / WebServiceHostFactory).
What are your likes / dislikes?
WCF makes life much easier:
decouples the service (implementation) from all binding-related stuff – you just write your service to implement the contract, that’s all – doesn’t need to know anything about which binding / protocol will be used
extreme flexibility with the configuration system, the ability to mix+match your binding/protocol needs
extreme extensibility by providing lots of hooks and points to extend & modify WCF; if you don’t like the default behavior. You can create behaviors, bindings, filters – you name it.