Difference between WCF vs. Web Services (ASMX)

Categories	WCF	ASMX (Web Services)
Protocols Support	HTTP TCP Name Pipes MSMQ Custom UDP	HTTP
Hosting	A WCF component can be hosted in any kind of environment in .NET 3.0, such as a console application, Windows application, or IIS. WCF services are known as 'services' as opposed to web services because you can host services without a web server. Self-hosting the services gives you the flexibility to use transports other than HTTP.	Can be hosted only with HttpRuntime on IIS