A basic WCF tutorial - 1 of 3 

Thanks for the feedback and encouragement. Ta!

And that... is a fair comment ("same trap..."! :-) OK, let us see if you have shamed me into going back to this. In the meantime, here are the 3 parts from my blog postings: dennisaa.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/net-simplest-wcf-service-and-client/ dennisaa.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/net-hosting-the-simple-wcf-service-in-iis/ dennisaa.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/neta-client-for-an-iis-hosted-wcf-service/

OK... I have added parts 2 and 3. Thanks for pushing me! :-)

Dennis Wells amazing! thanks a whole bunch. :D

The latter. Separation of concerns is the way to go in a "proper" development and production scenario: performance (network latency aside, maybe), security, and cleanliness of design and development all benefit from decoupling. My tutorials are always just to get viewers "up and running", because for me the simplest possible example is a good way to kick start my learning. However, once you have that understanding, you then need to stand back and separate out the setup that supports that learning, and the learning itself. Typically you will throw away the setup part, because it has no place in your proposed production solution. It might be useful sometimes, like in a self-contained solution that targets a single customer, with no requirement for scaling, security or the ability to allow development by multiple developers concurrently. However, the use-case for a web service would be unlikely to tick those boxes.

Fine... Thank you Sir