CoreWCF VS practical-aspnetcore

CoreWCF might be of some use.

You can open a discussion in the CoreWCF repo:

In the later versions you could avoid almost all the XML mess by configuring all of the settings in code. The experience is pretty close to gRPC imo, one plus point is you don't need to learn how to write proto classes. Though you could use protobuf-net for a similar experience. I'm kinda hopeful with CoreWCF, they aim to support more transports (including event gRPC) in the future along with queues other than MSMQ and slowly evolve from being too SOAP specific. There's a lot of potential still for WCF to be a transport agnostic framework that ecompass a lot of transports.

On our end, it's WCF for some servers that haven't been upgraded over. Though it seems we have a path forward for that now with CoreWCF that we're working towards.

There's ongoing work on adding generic queue support. The first two concrete implementations should be MSMQ and RabbitMq from what I recall, though MSMQ will be windows only. But the nice thing about the work is it also opens up other types of message queues for WCF (e.g. Azure Service Bus, RabbitMq, Amazon SQS etc...).

It's seems there's already design work started for a generic queue concept here. I'm pretty interested to see how it goes as well as that'll be a big part for CoreWcf to move forward as a viable choice for greenfield projects and not just a way to migrate existing Wcf projects to Core.

The ongoing .net core port called CoreWcf plans to realize that goal as a future feature on it's roadmap. Where there's plans on adding new transports that didn't exist on .net framework wcf like Grpc, Azure Service bus, Amazon SQS, rabbitmq etc...

If you hit any difficulties or have any problems, feel free to jump on the gitter channel. Details for that are in the repo contributing guide.

Peruse samples here https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore

Check out this repo - https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore/tree/net6.0/projects/security/authentication-with-identity

For example, @nitaro (idk the username) shared this GitHub project in one of the past posts that I thought would be a great place to start: https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore/tree/net6.0/exercises/pathway-1. I usually work on projects on my own but it’s so much more helpful just having others who are doing the same thing at the same time to bounce ideas off of and get support from!

Check also the samples at https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore. It's all tiny samples that you can try out to see some functionalities.

and I maintain a pretty popular open source project https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore