Should I re-write all my ASP.NET web-services as WCF?

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Published on 2010-04-27T10:26:46Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 10:33 UTC
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Is there really an added benefit that worth the bother of spending time converting existing asmx web-services to WCF?

(I have about 10 web-services in the project)

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