将Windows窗体应用程序连接到C＃Web服务？

Question

I've created two applications, one windows forms application in Vb.net and another web service application in C# and MVC.

Whats the best way of connecting the 2. The windows forms app is for attendance checking, so the application will currently need a user to input attendance information and write to a local access database.

I was thinking of creating a REST API for my web service which would allow the windows forms application to call the data and add any new check ins that have occurred. I'm wondering though how would my windows forms application know when to call the REST API for the web service when new data is added?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You pretty much figured out by you own. You can either use WCF or Web API, both will work fine for your purpose. If you want to know the difference, please read this link