While Windows Communication Foundation 4.5 has lots of little improvements, the ASP.NET Web API is a very big change. You'll probably end up taking advantage of both, so here's what's in the pipeline ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

But, in a roughly similar time frame as WCF 4.5, Microsoft is also rolling out the ASP.NET Web API, which gives you a very different way of building services by concentrating on the industry-standard ...