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I highly recommend this book to any role involved with developing .NET software.

Outlines the basic differences between the two. Gives a developer a better idea of when to use WCF and when not to.

Windows Communication Foundation (henceforth abbreviated as WCF) supports multiple bindings that allows developers to expose their services in a variety of ways. What this means is a developer can create a service once and then expose it to support net.tcp:// or http:// and various versions of http:// (Soap1.1, Soap1.2, WS*, JSON, etc). This can be useful if a service crosses boundaries between intranet and extranet applications for example. This article walks through the steps to configure a service to support multiple bindings with Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net 3.5 framework. For those that want to jump directly to the sample solution it can be found at the end of this article.

To summarize the results, WCF is 25%—50% faster than ASP.NET Web Services, and approximately 25% faster than .NET Remoting. [...] in one case WCF is nearly 100% faster but in another scenario it is nearly 25% slower.

MSDN official guide to service migration under the WSE 3.0 architecture.

Good document describing new features and backwards compatibility

The .NET Framework 3.0 has officially been released!

Ayant déjà pris plusieurs fois du retard, la sortie de Windows Vista se précise néanmoins, au travers notamment de la mise à disposition anticipée de plusieurs de ses composants techniques.