WCF REST Configuration for ASP.NET AJAX and plain REST Services

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 11 Apr 2008 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

If you've been thinking about using ASP.NET Ajax in combination with WCF, life got a lot easier with .NET 3.5 and the new REST support. The webHttp binding along with the ASP.NET AJAX specific version makes it easy to use WCF instead of ASMX services with ASP.NET AJAX. A valid question to ask though is: Do I need to use WCF or should I continue to use ASMX? If ASMX services are working fine for you as is with MS AJAX you probably don't have to switch. In fact if your services are purely based on...

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