What is the difference between an asp.net web method and a wcf service?

Question

I\'m new to .Net and do not understand the difference. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

I had the same problem.

I found the book Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step to be really good.

If you just want to do the traditional webservice thing using WCF, then Chapter 1 of that book will show you exactly how to do that (write service, test, deploy, use service).

Its written for VS2005, but I'm using vs2008 and found it even easier.

There's a lot more to WCF, but that book is a good start.