When will you use web services and when .Net remoting with HTTP and SOAP?

When making this decision we will keep a couple factors in mind. These are:

1. Development time – Developing a web service is fast and easy, , write your function, done! Remoting is more involved, and takes more time.

2. Where and who is the client – Even though we can do remoting over HTTP using SOAP, our client won’t have the benefit of a WSDL file. If we expect our components will be consumed by third parties across the web, we will use web services.

3. The level of flexibility needed – There is a constant trade off between ease of programming and flexibility. This is the case here too. Although web services are highly configurable, remoting allows you to customize the underpinnings to no end.