NOTE: While this article focuses on ASMX services, the same server-side performance tuning principles can be applied to WCF services as well.     Typical Web Service Configuration A typical services hosting configuration involves a set of ASP.NET services (ASMX services) or WCF services hosted inside an HTTP Server (IIS Server).  These services (ASMX or WCF) access data repositories (either relational databases or XML data sources) through a Data Access... [More]

  Introduction This blog post discusses some of the differences between WCF and ASMX Services. Windows Communication Foundation WCF provides a common platform for all .NET communication. It is a programming platform and runtime system for building, configuring and deploying network-distributed services. It is the latest service oriented technology; Interoperability being one of its fundamental characteristics.   It is a combined set of features including Web Services, Remoti... [More]

  NOTE: While this article focuses on ASMX services, the same server-side performance tuning principles can be applied to WCF services as well.   Typical Web Service Configuration IIS Server running a hosted web service. Webservice (ASMX or WCF) accesses database (through a Data Access Layer) Desktop client(s) and possibly web clients connecting to the webservice to retrieve data or perform other service operations.   What can go wrong? In the above ‘typical&... [More]