Web Services — WCF vs. ASMX (“Standard”)

Question

I am working on a new project. Is there any benefit with going with a WCF web service over a regular old fashion web service?

Visual Studio offers templates for both

Answer 1

The Pros of doing all by yourself is:

• No learning curve
• Very flexible

The Pros of WCF are:

• Costs less time in the longer run
• Switch protocols without programming

A disadvantage of WCF: some static property names can be pretty lengthy...

To summarize: WCF lets you focus on programming, but you need to learn it first ;-)