WCF Development Improvements

.NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 include several enhancements for WCF development.  Some of these include:

• Significant scalability improvements (5-10x) in Web-hosted application scenarios
• Support for using ADO.NET Entity Framework entities in WCF contracts
• API usability improvements with DataContract Serializers, and with the UriTemplate and WCF web programming models
• Enhanced TestClient support within VS 2008 SP1
• New Hosting Wizard in VS 2008 SP1 for WCF Service Projects
• Improved debugging support in partial trust scenarios

DataContracts without attributes (POCO support) in .NET 3.5 SP1

http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/aaron/archive/2008/05/13/50934.aspx

DataContracts and object references

http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/aaron/archive/2008/05/14/50943.aspx

WCF features/improvements in .NET 3.5 SP1 & VS 2008 SP1

http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/aaron/archive/2008/05/12/50909.aspx

Orcas SP1 Improvement: Asynchronous WCF HTTP Module/Handler for IIS7 for Better Server Scalability

http://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/archive/2008/08/13/orcas-sp1-improvement-asynchronous-wcf-http-module-handler-for-iis7-for-better-server-scalability.aspx