For simplicity in this example I’m just creating an instance of the DataContext in the service constructor. Normally I’d probably have some repository classes to manipulate the data and have a DataContext instance for each class that lives for the lifetime of the class itself. I can’t really think of a better way to do it…

Not sure about DTO as only really started looking into this stuff myself. I guess you could have some sort of converter at the service level that converts the the Linq to SQL entities to DTOs and vice versa, although without looking into it further I’m not sure how I’d handle the DataContext in this situation.

Cheers
Joe

How are you managing your datacontext with WCF ?

Also, how would you handle using a DTO rather than passing the Entity to the client ?

Thanks