There is also SignalR which is being developed by a couple of Microsofties, is open source and has just gone 1.0. You can find it at http://signalr.net.
---------------------------------------- From: "Craig van Nieuwkerk" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 7:23 AM To: "ozDotNet" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: WCF service best practises ASP.NET WebAPI seems to be the new hotness. I don't have much experience with WCF, but everyone I talk to says it is too heavy and complicated. WebAPI tries to simplify things. On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: What about the death of WCF as everything else in the modern technological landscape seems to be dying? Is WCF another one? Everything that dies has to be replaced in some form or another. If WCF is dying, what's its replacement? If I want to publicly expose my .NET "service" over the wire, what else can I use? SOAP, Sockets, Remoting, REST, two tin cans and a string? I'm I missing some gossip about sweeping changes in this area? If anyone knows, please speak up. Greg
