When should we select WCF and Web API?
WCF is the ideal choice when you need to create a service that supports unique scenarios such as duplex communication, one way messaging and message queues, among others. Web API should be the option when you need to build resource-oriented services over HTTP that can utilize the full features of HTTP.
Why is Web API required Is it possible to use RESTful services using WCF?
Web API is open source an ideal platform for building RESTful services using the . NET Framework. Unlike a WCF REST service, it use the full features of HTTP (like URIs, request/response headers, caching, versioning, various content formats).
What’s the difference between web API and WCF rest?
Web API is open source an ideal platform for building REST-ful services over the .NET Framework. Unlike WCF Rest service, it use the full featues of HTTP (like URIs, request/response headers, caching, versioning, various content formats)
Is the Windows Communication Foundation a REST API?
WCF (Windows communication foundation) is a rich SOA framework. It has allowed us to create enterprise SOA (service-oriented architecture) applications easily. However recent popularity of Restful API in the direction of Microservices architecture and adoption has overtaken WCF as a favorite framework for Service/API development.
Can a WCF service be exposed as rest?
This could be legitimate use cases for most of you where you would like to expose existing WCF service as REST without breaking any existing client which might be using SOAP, TCP way of communication with the service. This approach, however, can be considered as a temporary resolution or workaround.
Can a WCF service support multiple endpoints?
WCF Services Support Multiple Endpoints which is built in framework feature. One can expose the same contract or multiple contracts on the same or multiple endpoints and it is pretty simple to do so. Today I am going to talk about an approach of enabling WCF service as REST API without breaking any existing client.