More web service versioning info
Courtesy of LOBOMINATOR from MSDN forums....more links and posts on service versioning... :), plus i'm in a blogging state of mind tonight...!
https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1989101&SiteID=1
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Service Versioning
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731060.aspx
Best Practices: Data Contract Versioning
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733832.aspx
Versioning Windows Communication Foundation Services
http://blogs.msdn.com/craigmcmurtry/archive/2006/07/23/676104.aspx
IExtensibleDataObject Interface
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.iextensibledataobject.aspx
Forward-Compatible Data Contracts
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731083.aspx
Data Contract Equivalence
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms734767.aspx
Sample
http://wcf.netfx3.com/files/folders/serialization/entry3789.aspx
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Ripping code for the first version is always easier than trying to thinking about v-next (and v-next +n)! Too often consultants don't think enough about v-next which in my humble opinion also provides value for a customer (differentiating a consultant from a contractor)!
jk