endpoint.tv - WCF and WF 4.0 First Look with Brian Loesgen

The Discussion

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  the takeaways...
  

  ·         The model is the application

  ·         I can view/edit/roundtrip the model with different visual editors

  ·         The model is represented in a relational database so you can chain models together (IIS model and the WCF model + its hosting infrastructure model)

  ·         Other tools can navigate these relationships

  ·         A runtime takes the model and runs what it understands of the model.

  ·         A runtime could also take a model and pass pieces of the model to other runtimes

  ·         Templates for application types will emerge … you never start from scratch anymore.

   

  ·         You can create a model with a text editor.

  ·         It’s easier for some people to write code than draw pictures

  ·         So they use the textual modeler.

   

  ·         The model can be cracked open and analysed unlike code assemblies.

  ·         Where are all my applications that do that special sauce thing?

  ·         Ten years later new compliance requirements come out from the federal government. 

  ·         Where are all my applications and places in the model that deal with those areas?

   

  ·         The models will get you 70-80 percent there.

   

  ·         There will still be a requirement for traditional code