What benefits does WCF bring to the table and why should I use this new technology over good old ASP.Net web services?
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What benefits does WCF bring to the table and why should I use this new technology over good old ASP.Net web services?
Maybe you don’t need to transition to WCF if regular Web-Service will work for you,
however WCF encompasses more than just Web-Services.
With WCF you can utilize different communication channels (such as Web-Services, MSMQ, named pipes…) utilizing the same end-point service handler code.
WCF also has different built-in security mechanisms, allows you to utilize different serialization mechanisms (if something other than Soap is needed like raw JSON), hosting of services without the requirement of needing a web project etc…
As such WCF is more a general service hosting framework that can replace regular ASMX web services