Is Sockets effective for talking to Service?

Question

I have a large C#/WPF application. This application needs to collect data from other, "sub", applications that will be running on a Windows service - same network, different PC. Is sockets the best way to handle communications between the two (as opposed to remoting or something else)?

Answer 1

WCF is the recommended approach for cross process communication in v3.5 and newer. Sockets and Named Pipes could/would work, but you'll find much better support via WCF.

Answer 2

No way. Use WCF.