GrapeCity Blog post to help you determine when to use Web Services or APIs.
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In this blog post, GrapeCity's Greg Lutz will take you through a bit of the history of how these technologies evolved, what their differences and similarities are, and when it's best to use one vs. the other. He even looks at an example of a REST API - which is BOTH a web service AND an API!
View this informative GrapeCity blog to get all of this valuable information.