Difference between WCF and windows service

Hi Sagar, 

I think the question should be what is the difference between windows service and web service in .net. Now both have different fetaures and use. We will go with examples and requirement. Let suppose you have got a requirement where you need to perform a database update each and every day at a very particular time. The requirement is like you need to archive a table.Here windows service can be used which will perform this task at regular interval. Window service is long running executable which starts and stops on your requirement.  Now lets assume other requirement where you have two different application . Both the system needs to fetch employee detail from employee table in database. Now rather than writing same piece code in 2 different application you can write web services and deploy on server. Now these 2 application will refer the single endpoint in the web service.

Web service can be written in various way in .net. You can use old .asmx approach. Two other ways are creating WCF service with required binding or sriting your own webapi.

 

Regards,

Mukesh