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May 13In Fool We Trust
by in Feature Articles on 2013-06-19Stan arrived one morning to find his boss, Monty, typing up a storm. This meant two things: a horrible spec would land in Stan’s inbox by the next morning, and that spec would shoehorn in a database where none belonged. Monty was a database “expert.” There was no problem his weighty and ill-performing hammer couldn’t nail. During Stan’s first year on the job, he had implemented everything the way Monty described, because he hadn’t known better. Now more knowledgeable of the company’s system, he yearned for an opportunity to do something properly.
In his inbox, Stan found a copy of the customer request that occupied Monty. It asked for two existing ASP.NET applications to be hooked up to one another: a pleasant surprise. This is a perfect case for a simple web service, Stan thought, and since they’re using .NET, WCF is all we need.