User220959680 posted
WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation, which was released as part of Microsoft .Net framework 3.0 to implement Web services.
Before WCF framework distributed applications are implemented using various technologies such as .Net remoting, ASP.NET Web services (asmx) etc.
WCF has introduced unified programming model to implement Web service applications, which are consumed by number of client applications.
What is Windows Communication Foundation
WCF was initially supported SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocal) based Web services, even though there is support to implement
RESTFul (Representational State Transfer) web services it is NOT straight forward.
RESTFul web services are widely used due to it supports wide variety client base i.e., web, phone, devices etc.
Microsoft has released ASP.NET Web API to implement
RESTFul web services during August 2012
WCF is more configuration based rather than convention based. Most of the RESTFul services are deployed using ASP.NET Web API as it is designed to implement HTTP based RESTFul services easily without concentrating on configuration.
Refer http://www.asp.net/web-api
