One of the alternatives recommended by Microsoft for organizations looking for a migration path away from WCF on .NET Framework is gRPC: a low-overhead, high-performance, cross-platform RPC framework. The upcoming .NET Core 3.0 has first-class support for gRPC; out of the box, you can create a new project with dotnet new grpc.

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Microsoft announced at //BUILD 2019 that after .NET Core 3.1 will be .NET 5 - unifying .nET Framework and .NET Core. But, not everything is coming along for the journey. Notably - Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is not being ported forward to .NET 5. Fortunately, there are more modern alternatives that are lighter weight and offer broader compatibility. If you're heavily invested in WCF, what's next for you? Read on...

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