Why use ASP.NET MVC 2 for REST services? Why not WCF?

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Published on 2010-03-27T20:48:39Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 20:53 UTC
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So I see that MVC 2 now supports [HttpPut] and [HttpDelete] as well as [HttpGet] and [HttpPost], making it possible to do a full RESTful Web service using it.

I've been using the REST toolkit for WCF for a while and find it fairly powerful, but I'd be interested to find out what (if any) advantages there are using the MVC 2 approach.

Links, war stories, or even pure hear-say are welcome.

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