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Reputation: 1110

ASMX or WCF for AJAX consumption inside of ASP.net only

I have an ASP.Net 3.5 application in which I would like to setup some web services for AJAX consumption for ONLY within the application they reside. There is no foreseeable need to expose them to anything beyond the application in which they live. That being said, is there any particular benefit to use WCF over ASMX or viceversa to expose these services? ASMX services certainly seem to have an easier setup that WCF but I want to be sure that I follow best practices.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 518

Answers (2)

Dave Ward
Dave Ward

Reputation: 60580

Personally, I'm still using ASMX for that scenario.

ASMX isn't going anywhere until at least ASP.NET 5+. With that in mind, I can't help but see the additional work to set up WCF services as wasted effort in a purely AJAX-consumption scenario.

Upvotes: 3

John Saunders
John Saunders

Reputation: 161783

See Microsoft: ASMX Web Services are a “Legacy Technology”.

That said, although I don't know one way or another, it seems to me that Microsoft might let you slide on "page methods".

Upvotes: 0

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