DevtheWeb.NET » WCF http://www.devtheweb.net/blog Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:25:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WCF Web Services vs. Standard Web Services http://www.devtheweb.net/blog/2010/01/07/wcf-web-services-vs-standard-web-services/ http://www.devtheweb.net/blog/2010/01/07/wcf-web-services-vs-standard-web-services/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:27:02 +0000 admin http://www.devtheweb.net/blog/?p=438 If you have experience with the standard .net web services you

may find useful the following table of comparison between WCF Web Services and Standard Web Services.

Standard Web Services WCF Web Services
client for the service are generated by command-line tool WSDL.EXE ServiceMetadata tool(svcutil.exe)
class attribute [WebService] [ServiceContract]
method exposed to client attribute [WebMethod] [OperationContract]
supported operations one-way

request-response

 one-way,

request-response,

duplex
namespace for serialization System.Xml.Serialization System.Runtime.Serialization
Encoding XML 1.0

MTOM

DIME

Custom

 XML 1.0

MTOM

Binary

Custom
accessed through HTTP,

TCP,

Custom

 HTTP

TCP

Named pipes

MSMQ

P2P

Custom
Exception Handling Unhandled exceptions are returned to the client as SOAP faults. unhandled exceptions are returned to the client.
protocols security security

transaction

reliable messaging
can be hosted in IIS IIS

windows activation service

Windows service

Self-hosting


It seems that WCF offers much more portability and flexibility to develop a service when comparing to web service.

When you need to write web service, what do you prefer to use?

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