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Asked: 2026-05-13T12:38:47+00:00

Following on from this question, would it be a wise idea to place a

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Following on from this question, would it be a wise idea to place a WCF service at the server side, between client and database to handle queries?

The idea being that you take load of the network and reduce round trips to and from a database.

I would use the Entity Framework to query the database in the service, and just send results to requesting apps over the network.

I wondered if this is a silly or good idea?

There would be up to 10 clients and 1 server. Lots of queries requesting a few 1000 records at times, requiring quite a bit of calculations applied to them at times.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, seems like a really smart idea at first.

    But what are you going to return then?? A WCF contract needs to be very specific about its return values – you need to tell it whether it’ll be a list of customers, or a single order with its order details etc.

    Trying to get this to work generally, for any kind of SQL or EF / Entity-SQL query you want to have executed, might just be too tricky. You would almost have to “dumb it down” to a List<object> or List<BaseBusinessClass> something for it to work in a very generic way.

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