Summary

This chapter focused on interoperability with COM, both from a consumer and service perspective. Although you might be lucky enough to forget the past, WCF hasn't left it all in the dust. The WCF framework provides a strong extensible starting point to help in the evolutionary model of moving solutions into the SOA age.

The next chapter focuses on working with data in and around WCF. All relevant services in some form have data associated with them. Without the data, you have fairly empty services. With WCF and SOA in general, careful consideration is required to understand not only the "how to" but also the implications of what happens to data as it crosses the explicit service boundaries.