service references and web references

A Web Reference will create a client proxy class that allows your code to talk to a Web Service that is described via WSDL and communicates via SOAP or HTTP GET (other posters indicate that it is only ASMX, but Web References can also talk to Java-based Web Services or Python-based or Ruby so long as they all talk WSDL and conform to the WS-I interoperability standard).

A Service Reference will create a client proxy class that communicates with a WCF-based service : regardless of whether that WCF service is a Web Service or not.

For more details check below links

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/830eb53b-7938-4b1c-b78c-4db0a0d4ab73/difference-between-add-web-reference-amp-add-service-reference?forum=wcf

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/308454/difference-between-web-reference-and-service-reference/748137

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Amit Mohanty7y ago
A Web Reference will create a client proxy class that allows your code to talk to a Web Service that is described via WSDL and communicates via SOAP or HTTP GET (other posters indicate that it is only ASMX, but Web References can also talk to Java-based Web Services or Python-based or Ruby so long as they all talk WSDL and conform to the WS-I interoperability standard).

A Service Reference will create a client proxy class that communicates with a WCF-based service : regardless of whether that WCF service is a Web Service or not.

For more details check below links

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/830eb53b-7938-4b1c-b78c-4db0a0d4ab73/difference-between-add-web-reference-amp-add-service-reference?forum=wcf

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/308454/difference-between-web-reference-and-service-reference/748137
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Hemant Jindal7y ago
you can refer this link for more details

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/step-2-adding-a-web-reference

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/additional-tools/wcf-web-service-reference-guide

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2158106/web-reference-vs-service-reference
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