The ServiceContract attribute presented in the previous chapter exposes an interface (or a class) as a service-oriented contract, allowing you to program in languages such as C#, using constructs such as interfaces, while exposing those constructs as WCF contracts and services. This chapter starts by discussing how to better bridge the gap between the two programming models by enabling operation overloading and contract inheritance. Next, it presents a few simple yet powerful service contract design and factoring guidelines and techniques. The chapter ends by showing you how to interact programmatically at runtime with the metadata of the exposed contracts.