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I'm starting to work with my model almost exclusively in WCF and wanted to get some practical approaches to versioning these services over time. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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There is a good writeup on Craig McMurtry's WebLog. Its from 2006, but most of it is still relevant.

As well as a decision tree to walk through the choices, he shows how to implement those changes using Windows Communication Foundation

Espo
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    That looks like a really good blog, thanks for sharing that. Have you got any practical experience with doing WCF versioning? I am always amazed there aren't more tools to handle it. – Kieran Benton Sep 17 '08 at 12:51
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See "Versioning WCF Services: Part I" and "Versioning WCF Services: Part II".

See also:

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While not an instant answer for you, I found the book Learning WCF very useful; in it there's a small section on versioning (which is similar to Craig McMurtry's advice posted by Espo). If you're looking for a general intro book, it's very good. Her website has lots of good stuff too: Das Blonde

Edit: No sure why her site isn't responding; it's been a while since I've visited, so maybe she shut it down. No sure.

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    Her name is Michele Leroux Bustamante. Google her name and you will find a new site (http://www.thatindigogirl.com/) and this one (http://www.michelelerouxbustamante.com/search.aspx?q=wcf). The dasBlonde/ThatIndigoGirl sites do not respond anymore it seems... – JTech Sep 03 '12 at 08:51
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    See [aponomarenko's answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/5219978/137471) which links to Michele Leroux Bustamante's online version of the section that you mention (split into two parts) - and it is indeed very informative! – bernhof May 23 '13 at 17:43