Web Services — WCF vs. ASMX (“Standard”)

Question

I am working on a new project. Is there any benefit with going with a WCF web service over a regular old fashion web service?

Visual Studio offers templates for both

Answer 1

I like the fact writing WCF services makes it easy to separate your service from the implementation. You can write your service and then host it in IIS, a console application, or a Windows service; you can also talk to it via HTTP, net TCP, etc.