iPhone communication with Windows C# App

I am create an iPhone app that needs to talk to a Windows C# app. The app will run as either a Service or Form Application.

What would be the best way to accomplish this? Ideally exposing a service-type architecture would be best as I don't need a stateful connection (stateless is fine in this case).

Can a WCF service hosted by my app using a form of TCP binding be consumed by my iPho开发者_Go百科ne? Or can an app host using httpBinding without the aid of IIS or some other web server?

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To run WCF on iPhone you need MonoTouch. Currently, which isn't completely implemented.

I don't think it's a good idea.

Web Service are a better idea in my opinion. You can spawn a web service listener from your console/gui/service Windows C# application.

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Here's what I ended up doing:

In my .NET windows service, I created WCF service bound using a WebHttpBinding endpoint. Doing so exposed my WCF services as JSON.

From the iPhone, using Objective-C, I used the ASIHTTPRequest and json-framework libraries to talk to and parse the JSON web service exposed by my .net app.

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Expose your C# application functionality as a ReSTful web service. More information on exposing WCF service is available here

And there are project templates available for creating REST WCF service. Download the WCF REST starter kit.You can expose your service in XML/JSON format.

Then from your iPhone app, you may consume the web service exposed.