title: What are the benefits of using WCF?
body: <ol>
  <li><p>We currently just utilize soap webservices for all our communication but have been thinking about moving to WCF instead. What are the benefits of using it over an asmx service?</p></li>
  <li><p>If we do go with a WCF service, can other languages still communicate with it? SOAP is standardized and all languages can interact with it.</p></li>
  <li><p>Are there any really good examples of how to get started with WCF that show the benefits of it over soap?</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I just found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/216931/what-is-the-difference-between-an-aspnet-web-method-and-a-wcf-service">this</a> question which is quite helpful.</li>
  <li>The <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms734712.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Getting Started Tutorial</a> is great.</li>
  </ul>