What is a 'better' approach to query/save from server: DTO or Wcf Data Services?

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Published on 2010-04-21T10:05:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 10:33 UTC
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From my perspective, the Data Services and their query approach is useful when querying simple object graphs from your server-side domain model. But when you want to query complex dependencies I couldn't create anything good out of it.

The classic DTO approach is fine-grained and can handle everything, but the downside is that you have to create Dto classes for every type of server-request which is time consuming and you have to synchronize the Dto type with your domain entity/business logic.

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