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		perezdev on Aug 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: .NET Framework 4.6.2 Thought the same of WCF. Could've sworn Web API was going to replace WCF.

frogfuzion on Aug 3, 2016 [–]

I think Web API was just intended to be a lightweight replacement for RESTful API in WCF. WCF does so much more, the most popular probably being SOAP, but I believe it does much more in the messaging, queue, workflow space as well.

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