Hi
I am looking into WCF and notice a lot of the documentation appears quite dated and has been written for Server 2003 / Server 2008 / Windows 7 and I can't really find fresh documentation updated for more recent versions of Windows.
If I wanted to get some basic samples going by following the tutorials at
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/getting-started-tutorial
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/samples/getting-started-sample
would this be the correct place to start?
Also if I was starting from a completely fresh machine from scratch eg an Azure virtual machine with Server 2016 and Visual Studio 2017 installed, with nothing else, what would be the easiest way of getting a sample WCF application up and running? It's just that the Microsoft pages jump about from one place to another and cater for so many scenarios I want to be careful of not following down the wrong rabbit hole!
What I'm looking for is a start-me-up guide just to start from zero, follow the instructions and get my first 'hello world' WCF client/server application up and running, just to see the mechanics of how it all fits together in practice.
Final question - is the industry in general using APIs rather than WCF technology, or is WCF still used by major companies?
Thanks!
Phil Anderson