Difference between ASP.Net Web services and .NET Remoting

1. What are the differences between ASP.Net Web services and .NET Remoting?

S.No	Features	ASP.Net Web services	.NET Remoting
1	Protocol	It can be accessed only over HTTP	It can be accessed over any protocol (including TCP, HTTP, SMTP and so on)
2	State Management	Web services work in a stateless environment	It provides support for both stateful and stateless environments through Singleton and SingleCall objects
3	Type System	Web services support only the datatypes defined in the XSD type system, limiting the number of objects that can be serialized.	Using binary communication, .NET Remoting can provide support for rich type system
4	Interoperability	Web services support interoperability across platforms, and are ideal for heterogeneous environments	.NET remoting requires the client be built using .NET, enforcing homogenous environment.
5	Reliability	Highly reliable due to the fact that Web services are always hosted in IIS	Can also take advantage of IIS for fault isolation. If IIS is not used, application needs to provide plumbing for ensuring the reliability of the application
6	Extensibility	Provides extensibility by allowing us to intercept the SOAP messages during the serialization and deserialization stages.	Very extensible by allowing us to customize the different components of the .NET remoting framework.
7	Ease-of-Programming	Easy-to-create and deploy.	Complex to program.