What is the difference between wcf and web services?



What is the difference between wcf and web services?..

Answer / Shweta Jain

"WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is a framework provided by Microsoft that enables building service-oriented applications, while Web Services are loosely coupled distributed systems described in XML using standard protocols like HTTP, SOAP, and WSDL. WCF supports multiple transports, encodings, and bindings, whereas Web Services are limited to HTTP and SOAP"

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