Hello All

I've recently learned that Microsoft is currently working on building a WCF Client code generator for .NET Core VB.NET projects. The generator was originally included for C# projects, but so far not for VB.NET. It seems we're about to see that change (ETA unknown).

Here's the initial problem report:

https://developercommunity.visualstu...sual-/10525581

...and here's the GitHub issue on the subject, complete with a link to the active pull request by Carol Wang [MFST]:

https://github.com/dotnet/wcf/issues/4381

I'd like to encourage all of my fellow VB.NET developers to upvote the GitHub issue (the first entry, by Charles Monk), and also to comment, so as to assist the team in gauging community interest.

WCF remains a fabulous tool; it's still a mystery to me how it could have been so easily supplanted by so primitive a technology as REST. And now that we have CoreWCF for the server side, the package is complete (mission statement notwithstanding).

Make sure to vote, and thank you for your attention on this matter.

Thanks,
Jeff Bowman
Fairbanks, Alaska