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Thanks guys, I appreciate the help.<br />
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William, can you please explain what you meant when you mentioned MVC? &nbsp;I have heard the term, but I do not know how it applies in this scenario.
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Thanks guys, I appreciate the help.

William, can you please explain what you meant when you mentioned MVC?  I have heard the term, but I do not know how it applies in this scenario.

http://www.asp.net/mvc/ [http://www.asp.net/mvc/]

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Can someone please tell me the difference between wcf and a web service (please don't post a microsoft link, I already looked there). &nbsp;<br />
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I really don't understand how it would help at all if you are going over the web. &nbsp;It seems to me the only difference is that you can speficy the protocol that it uses. &nbsp;I watched the first three examples here: &nbsp;<a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/content/en-us/msft/netframework/wcf/Screencasts" rel="ugc nofollow">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/content/en-us/msft/netframework/wcf/Screencasts</a>. &nbsp;<br />
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He created a wcf project, played with it in visual studio, then he hosted it in iis. &nbsp;If you are hosting it in iis, isn't it going to be using http anyway?<br />
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So can someone please tell me what benefits this technology has?<br />
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Thanks
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Can someone please tell me the difference between wcf and a web service (please don't post a microsoft link, I already looked there).  

I really don't understand how it would help at all if you are going over the web.  It seems to me the only difference is that you can speficy the protocol that it uses.  I watched the first three examples here:  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/content/en-us/msft/netframework/wcf/Screencasts.  

He created a wcf project, played with it in visual studio, then he hosted it in iis.  If you are hosting it in iis, isn't it going to be using http anyway?

So can someone please tell me what benefits this technology has?

Thanks

wcf vs web service

The .NET Framework is not specific to any one programming language; rather, it includes a library of functions that allows developers to rapidly build applications. Several supported languages include C#, VB.NET, C++ or ASP.NET.

.NET Programming

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a tool used to implement and deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support distributed computing where services have remote consumers. It features a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications. Services typically have a WSDL interface (Web Services Description Language) that any WCF client can use to consume the service, regardless of which platform the service is hosted on. WCF implements many advanced Web services (WS) standards such as WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, RSS Syndication Services, WS-Discovery, routing and better support for REST services.