WCF vs ASP .Net Web API

Question

What are the pros and cons of using each technology?

WCF Web Api is now merged into Asp.net Asp.net web api now supports self hosting.

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Answer 1

The choice depends on what we want to do.

1. ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building non-SOAP based services over HTTP only - so there aren't more transport protocols available using this framework.
2. WCF / Windows Communication Foundation is a framework for exchanging SOAP-based messages - here we use a lot of transport protocols: HTTP, TCP, Named pipes, MSMQ, etc...

I am not sure about which one has better performance regarding the amount of data, maybe WCF since we can use low protocols. Any comments are appreciated.