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Bastien Vandamme
Bastien Vandamme

Reputation: 18485

WCF Service Application VS ASP.NET Web Application?

I'm building a Web API to access my database. I would like to create a Single Page Application Website first then a iPhone, Android and Windows application. Classic.

My data and business layer are already finished.

  1. First I decided to build a Json WCF Webservice. In Visual Studio I created a WCF Service Application. I modified the Web.config file to accept Json requests and implemented my interface and svc file.

  2. After that I discovered ASP.NET Web Application with the Web API template. So I decided to change and to create a real web API with this full website structure.

Now I'm lost. What are the differences between these two possibilities to create a Web API?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1066

Answers (1)

k4st0r42
k4st0r42

Reputation: 1252

A comparative from microsoft : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj823172(v=vs.110).aspx

Personnaly, I prefer WCF because the datacontracts are generated in the case of SOAP Web Services with WSDL files.

Upvotes: 2

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