Difference between WCF and WebService
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I am a beginner to WCF. I have just started reading and doing practicals in WCF. One difference which I noticed beween WCF and WebServices are WCF will work on any protocols whereas WebServices will work only on HTTP. Is there any noticeable difference between these two apart from this? Is there any implementation or consumption difference between these two? Thanks
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I am a beginner to WCF. I have just started reading and doing practicals in WCF. One difference which I noticed beween WCF and WebServices are WCF will work on any protocols whereas WebServices will work only on HTTP. Is there any noticeable difference between these two apart from this? Is there any implementation or consumption difference between these two? Thanks
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
See http://www.keithelder.net/blog/archive/2008/10/17/WCF-vs-ASMX-WebServices.aspx[^] for a good overview.
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I am a beginner to WCF. I have just started reading and doing practicals in WCF. One difference which I noticed beween WCF and WebServices are WCF will work on any protocols whereas WebServices will work only on HTTP. Is there any noticeable difference between these two apart from this? Is there any implementation or consumption difference between these two? Thanks
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
WCF combines and extends the capabilities of existing Microsoft distributed systems technologies, including Enterprise Services, System.Messaging, Microsoft .NET Remoting, ASMX, and WSE to deliver a unified development experience across multiple axes, including distance (cross-process, cross-machine, cross-subnet, cross-intranet, cross-Internet), hosts (ASP.NET, EXE, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, NT Service, COM+), protocols (TCP, HTTP, cross-process, custom), and security models (SAML, Kerberos, X509, username/password, custom).
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See http://www.keithelder.net/blog/archive/2008/10/17/WCF-vs-ASMX-WebServices.aspx[^] for a good overview.