While taking interviews of .NET developers I often ask this questions. But lots of people don’t know exact difference between this. So, I decided to write a separate blog about this.
Here are the few differences.
- Web services can be hosted in IIS as well as outside of the IIS. While WCF service can be hosted in IIS, Windows activation service,Self Hosting,WAS and on lots of proctols like Named Pipe,TCP etc.Here lots of people disagree how we can host the web service outside of the IIS but Here is the article for that.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa529311.aspx.
- In Web Services Web Service attribute will added on the top of class. In WCF there will be a Service Contract attributes will be there. Same way Web Method attribute are added in top of method of Web service while in WCF Service Operation Contract will added on the top method.
- In Web service System.XML.Serialization is supported while in the WCF Service System.RunTime.Serialization is supported.
- WCF Services can be multithreaded via ServiceBehavior class while web service can not be.
- WCF Services supports different type of bindings like BasicHttpBinding, WSHttpBinding, WSDualHttpBinding etc.while Web services only used soap or xml for this.
- Web services are compiled into a class library assembly. A file called the service file is provided that has the extension .asmx and contains an
@ WebServicedirective that identifies the class that contains the code for the service and the assembly in which it is located while in WCF.WCF services can readily be hosted within IIS 5.1 or 6.0, the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) that is provided as part of IIS 7.0, and within any .NET application. To host a service in IIS 5.1 or 6.0, the service must use HTTP as the communications transport protocol.
Hope this will help you. Happy programming!!!
Hi aticle is good but you need to include this points :
ReplyDeleteWCF webservice buit by the WCF Framwork which allows to build service oriented architecture.
WCF Service has three kind of binding each of this has sub binding
mail biding are
HTTP-Based bindings
TCP--Based bindings
MSMQ--Based bindings
Web services can only be invoked by HTTP (traditional webservice with .asmx). While WCF Service or a WCF component can be invoked by any protocol (like http, tcp etc.) and any transport type.
Hi aticle is good but you need to include this points :
ReplyDeleteWCF webservice buit by the WCF Framwork which allows to build service oriented architecture.
WCF Service has three kind of binding each of this has sub binding
mail biding are
HTTP-Based bindings
TCP--Based bindings
MSMQ--Based bindings
Web services can only be invoked by HTTP (traditional webservice with .asmx). While WCF Service or a WCF component can be invoked by any protocol (like http, tcp etc.) and any transport type.
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it's good.But i want How WCF Better than webservices
ReplyDeleteIt's good information for me
ReplyDeleteHI,
ReplyDeleteI would like to know whether WCF could be used for internet application ??
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Sushil
that's too informative, Guys, I have a query using wsdl URI of an agents.How can I verifiy that it is of WCF or a Webservice?
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