webservices with repository pattern in c# and WCF?

Question

Can anyone confirm the best way to integrate the repository pattern with webservices.... Well actually i have my repository patter working now in c#. I have 3 projects, DataAcce

Answer 1

Well first - not all callers have to use the same repository API; this is especially true of an external company.

WCF is interface based. This means that if you need to re-use some logic code, it is possible to use IoC/DI to inject WCF rather than a DAL (but using the same interface) - by using assembly sharing. It sounds like this is what you are doing. This works in many cases, but not all; fundamentally web-service based APIs often need to be designed differently in order to be optimal. It also isn't 100% pure from an SOA viewpoint, but it gets the job done, and allows more intelligent domain entities, so in an intranet (etc) scenario it is (IMO) perfectly reasonable.

An external caller would typically just use the wsdl/mex-based APIs (rather than assembly sharing), but anything is possible...