Better Proxy Clients

I was in a meeting last week with a few WCF users at Microsoft when they asked about performance issues creating client proxies. The first service pack for WCF, which ships at the same time as Orcas, includes some performance fixes for the most frequently seen issues, including the one they described. Wenlong Dong from the WCF performance team was at that meeting and has written up an in-depth description of the changes to client proxy creation, along with some best practices for using client objects.

I'll be at the Ask the Experts reception tonight for the SOA and Business Process conference that Microsoft is hosting. I expect regular articles to resume tomorrow since I've done announcements for the first two days this week already.