Contract-First SOA with WCF

Question

This question is more of a probe to discover what people are doing in the community, in practical situations, than a specifically targeted question. I have searched pretty broad

Answer 1

I do prefer contract-first development. I have used the Service Factory for this purpose. It has allowed me to generate both the service and the client code with no customization.

With customization, we were also able to generate Data Transfer Objects corresponding to Entity Framework objects, along with the code to translate from one to the other; automatic logging of exceptions; and HTML documentation of the services.

This is in addition to the code analysis rules that come with the Service Factory, which help prevent a developer from shooting himself in the foot by choosing incompatible WCF options.