Glenn Block on the future of WCF

http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/WCF-REST
http://europevan.blogspot.com/2010/10/glenn-block-on-wcf-evolving-for-web-e.html

also on PDC10 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gblock/archive/2010/10/26/taking-http-support-in-wcf-to-the-next-level.aspx

So the WCF team has started the work toward V.Next, too

we will see a radical change in the architecture of WCF evolving away from SOAP and toward REST, I think its a good news, and even better, they wont repeat the WF upgrading story.
and they will publish initial works on CodePlex, so the community can weigh in and help shaping it.

I wonder when will the WPF team speaks out the new plan and maybe some CodePlext preview releases ??
http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/it-looks-like-the-WPF-team-still-exists-after-all

Ah, thanks for the clarification ! actually I am using binary over TCP/NamedPipe bindings in my small personal projects, I know they will be supported, at least for backward compatibility, and its even better to hear that they are still 1st class and fully supported, hahah.

actually I'm just started watching the video, sorry for copy the infoq article naively,

@gblock: Thank goodness for that, some of us actually use a lot of the features of SOAP and WS-* and would through a fit if there was any sign of that being depreciated!! 

@felix9: Silverlight and WPF already have a CodePlex presence. For instance, the DataGrid released with .NET 4 existed first on CodePlex.

I read it as "Glenn Beck".

For people that haven't already got a lot of experience with WCF, it's very tempting when looking at a REST interface, to bundle WebRequest and an XML or JSON parser yourself. I hope these improvements are about making it an easier decision to use. .NET land really went architecture-astronaut crazy on .NET3 with WPF, WCF and WF - all three very time-consuming technologies to learn.