A tool for detecting breaking change.
Some changes to the service interface are non-breaking (e.g. adding method/properties), and some are not (e.g. renaming properties, adding more subclass in the response).
With a fairly large contract and frequent release, manually checking these rules for breaking changes is laborious and error prone.
It would be great for the WCF to provide such a tool for us to check for backward compatibility at the service interface level.
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Andrew Au
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Lars Wilhelmsen
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Oh, and if I found it - I'll push it to github.
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Lars Wilhelmsen
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Sitting somewhere on a disk, I have a half-baked solution for doing semantic diffs of WCF contracts, based on the service description hierarchies (WCF has it's own "metadata" reflection mechanism)
