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I have to build 2 a web application running on IIS 7. The first allows a user to upload a word document and returns to that user a ticket id. The second allows the user to download their file based on the ticket id.<br />
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I am an experienced LAMP developer but on this project the only tools available to me are ASP.net, IIS7, .net 3.5 and WCF. After reading about each of those, I wanted to ask people who have used these technologies<br />
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Should I make the applications simple forms, that has serverside ASP store the file and generate a ticket id and retrieve the file or does it make sense to write a WCF service application. <br />
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Most of my user are automated systems that will POST the information but the users are very familiar with SOAP and are not opposed to a SOAP interface<br />

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I have to build 2 a web application running on IIS 7. The first allows a user to upload a word document and returns to that user a ticket id. The second allows the user to download their file based on the ticket id.

I am an experienced LAMP developer but on this project the only tools available to me are ASP.net, IIS7, .net 3.5 and WCF. After reading about each of those, I wanted to ask people who have used these technologies

Should I make the applications simple forms, that has serverside ASP store the file and generate a ticket id and retrieve the file or does it make sense to write a WCF service application. 

Most of my user are automated systems that will POST the information but the users are very familiar with SOAP and are not opposed to a SOAP interface


ASP.net or WCF for a simple web application

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.

The successor to Active Server Pages, ASP.NET websites utilize the .NET framework to produce dynamic, data and content-driven web applications and services. ASP.NET code can be written using any .NET supported language. As of 2009, ASP.NET can also apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to web applications

ASP.NET

IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Windows Server operating systems. All current versions are built on a modular architecture; modules can be added or removed individually so that those required for specific functionality are installed. The full installation of IIS includes HTTP, security, content, compression, caching, logging and diagnostics.