Do we need Web Service working experience to learn/work on WCF for web application?

I have not worked on Web Services, but开发者_高级运维 now I am planning to work on WCF Services in my next web application project. Do we need to have prior working experience on Web Services to work on WCF ?

can we start learning/working on WCF directly with out working experience in Web Services ?

You do not need any prior experience in web services to use WCF, though it would of course help in some situations. Having said that, WCF does have a learning curve (like everything), so you should consider going through some training, like the excellent Pluralsight training.

In addition to some sort of training, a must have resource for WCF in my opinion is Juval Lowy's book, Programming WCF Services.

Good luck!

What do you mean by Web Services? Do you mean ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX)? If so, you don't need experience with them to learn WCF.

WCF is API for creating web services (and remote services generally) so once you start learning WCF you will start learning how to create and work with web services.

I think yes. It should not be a problem to write a WCF service even if you do not have web service development background. At least, I did not have this experience at the beginning :). I have posted a link to good WCF book at:

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