WCF - advantages and disadvantages

Question

I would like to find out about BOTH advantages and disadvantages of Windows Communication Foundation from people who have used it or just know it theoretically.

Answer 1

advantages

• Its made of a lot of different components, so you can create new components for security, transport, authentication
• Its faster than ASMX
• Supports Scaling/Load Balancing
• Its Interoperability, for java, and more..

disadvantages - bit of a learning curve to learn about all the different transport types/security spec.

If you want anything faster you would have to go to the TCP level

Edit Also Its Hard To Get To Grips With Concurrency To Do With Connected Clients