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Asked: 2026-05-15T19:04:39+00:00

What is the best, efficient and fastest way to expose an existing (class) library

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What is the best, efficient and fastest way to expose an existing (class) library (which primarily defines CRUD operations ) as a service (WCF Service or WCF Data Service), so that it can be used with Silverlight or Ajax. Are there tools (code generators, RAD tools), which can support this ?
Thanks in advance for your help and hints.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The best approach is to use WCF to create a wrapper yourself.

    You should do this, rather than using some automation to just expose the library directly because:

    • Security, do you want anyone to call anything on the library anytime?
    • Most libraries assume they are called directly rather than over a service (see fallacies of enterprise development).
    • WCF is by default stateless: you need to work out how to manage any state the library assumes (you will no longer have a single client).
    • Did I mention security?
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