[Mono-list] Status of WCF in Mono

[Atsushi Eno]

Hi,

Gareth Stokes wrote:
> Hi Atsushi,
> 
> I would be very interested in helping out with getting wcf fully 
> implemented.

That's great, welcome to mono hacking land :)

> where is the best place for me to start looking?

WCF is actually a set of .NET 3.0 libraries (with a few set of
tools). So if you haven't tried mono/mcs sources, you'll first
have to become familiar with it.

Once you got ready to touch class library sources, then there
are a couple of WCF assemblies under mcs/class:

	- System.Runtime.Serialization
	- System.IdentityModel
	- System.IdentityModel.Selectors
	- System.ServiceModel
	- System.ServiceModel.Web

So, anywhere you'd like to hack, you'll end up to hack one of them.

In the latest status text (linked from [*1]), there is a couple
of [contribute] tags. They are where you'd be easily adopt your
hackings into our class libs.

[*1] http://www.mono-project.com/WCF

See also: http://mono-project.com/Contributing . For WCF hacking,
our class status pages would also help what's missing
http://mono-project.com/Class_Status

Atsushi Eno


> 2009/7/30 Atsushi Eno <atsushieno at veritas-vos-liberabit.com 
> <mailto:atsushieno at veritas-vos-liberabit.com>>
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     adrin wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > Atsushi Eno-3 wrote:
>      >> You should search for WCF in the mono project web site.
>      >> http://www.mono-prject.com
>      >>
>      >>
>      >
>      > Thanks for the tip.. however what i've found doesnt completly
>     answer my
>      > questions :-)
>      >
>      > Well some pages state that work for implementing WCF "is in
>     progress", but
>      > mono roadmap doesnt include it as a planned, future technology to be
>      > included... I assume that WCF isn't 'officially' in development
>     plans? is
>      > anybody working on WCF right now?
> 
>     We don't have solid release plan yet. And I'm working on some of them
>     (now TCP/peer channel and duplex channel support).
> 
>      > http://www.mono-project.com/WCF page warns that it is outdated :(
> 
>     The page indicates a link to the latest status text.
> 
>     Atsushi Eno
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