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Chandu first WCF used to create service, which supports different protocols like HTTP , TCP , Named Pipes and MSMQ as transport protocol. So basically WCF used in ASP.Net to create services because WCF services supports HTTP protocol. So finally you can say WCF replaced Web Services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In simple, to achieve SOA(Service Oriented Architecture). If you want to know what is SOA refer the below url:

 

  

As you know, there is a way already exist to achieve the same using ASMX (normal) webservices. There are lot of benefits given by WCF, that's why WCF has a bit more success over than Webservices. Please refer the below url for the  benefit list :

 

 

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Hi Chandu,

 

 

So I would say WCF is not a replacement to web service but it is how we implement interprocess communication these days in ASP.NET

 

You may refer here for how to create a WCF service :

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/576820/Basic-Step-by-Step-WCF-WebService

 

Thanks,

Priyan

 

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