Upgrade WCF application to .NET 6.0 - Microsoft Q&A (2024)

FAQs

Does WCF work with .NET 6? ›

The WCF client will be updated with the release of CoreWCF to ensure seamless coordination. Starting with the 6.0 release, the WCF client package no longer supports . NET Standard 2.0 and is exclusively for . NET 6.0 and later.

Due to some breaking changes, we're extending the end of support date for WCF Client 4.10 until November 12, 2024. The following list shows the details of the support policy for WCF Client: WCF Client uses the Major. Minor versioning strategy.

Windows Communication Framework (WCF) may be deprecated in . NET 5/6+, but it doesn't mean your applications are going to be left out in the cold. Just like Web Forms and other . NET Framework technologies, your WCF applications will continue to work for a long time.

Firstly, it is important to consider the compatibility of the framework with existing code and libraries.NET Framework 6 is an evolution of.NET Framework 5 and is designed to be backward compatible with previous versions of.NET, ensuring that existing code and libraries will continue to work seamlessly [11].

Hosting WCF services within ASP.NET Core applications remains unsupported in . NET 8.

You can use gRPC for hosting web services inside . NET core application. gRPC is a high performance, open source RPC framework initially developed by Google. The framework is based on a client-server model of remote procedure calls.

Microsoft generally recommends two alternatives, gRPC and Web API, to replace WCF.

Although WCF provides some support for writing REST-style services, the support for REST in ASP.NET Web API is more complete and all future REST feature improvements will be made in ASP.NET Web API. If you have an existing WCF service and you want to expose additional REST endpoints, use WCF and the WebHttpBinding.

What replaced WCF service? ›

Is it worth learning WCF? It is worth learning for those who want to be a developer and learn to build services on a company network or as part of an enterprise system. So, in case, you want to be a developer, it will be beneficial for you. But, if you don't have interest, then you no need to think about it.

NET Framework libraries aren't available for use with . NET 6+, such as app domains, remoting, and code access security (CAS). If your libraries rely on one or more of the technologies listed on this page, consider the alternative approaches mentioned.

EF Core 6.0 will not run on . NET Framework. EF Core 6.0 will align with . NET 6 as a long-term support (LTS) release.

. NET 6-8 are implementations of . NET. Each version is a single product with a uniform set of capabilities and APIs that can be used for Windows desktop apps and cross-platform console apps, cloud services, and websites.