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WCF service or Web Service

lakshmi sowmya

12y1.3k

Hi,

In our VB.net windows application, we need to communicate with remote data base servers and get data from those servers provided a unique id number for particular user. And use this fetched data in our window application.

What will be the right approach to accomplish this task. whether to create a web service or wcf service . and how to handle request time outs if the remote servers are busy. Please help me , I am confused in deciding and getting started.

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Vasanth Krishnan12y ago
When compared with WebService, you can move with WCF Service. If u need to act as the web service, you can make the WCF to act as the Web service. I hope u can easily achieve what u need in WCF. If any time out exception or any other exception raised in the WCF, you can easily handle that in WCf and can send the exception in customised format too. Please go through some of the basics of WCF and decide it.