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I am designing a SOA application that has clients WPF - Desktop for Windows Authentication , Mobile(iOS,Android, Windows 8.. and son) , Web Browser - Mobile and web building with Asp.net MVC5 along with OAuth2.

What is the best service to architect WCF Rest or WCF OData or Web API or Web API Odata , which has high performance response time , unit testable and with all CRUD, Filtering, Grouping , Authorization, Authentication and fast to development time.

Also framework must support Active directory, OWin/Oauth2 and Individual authetnication (registration as in MVC5 SPA)

Thanks, ineffable

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I prefer WCF Data Services, which use the Open Data Protocol (OData), to web service enable a repository for CRUD operations. The development is relatively straightforward and the resulting architecture is clean and efficient.

Refer to the following post for additional discussion of the benefits/preferences of each approach: SOA WCF vs Web APi vs Odata.

Regarding OAuth, WCF Data Services supports claims-based authentication, which can be extended to provide support for OAuth 2.0. The following links provide additional information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728284(v=vs.110).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/odatateam/archive/2011/01/20/oauth-2-0-and-odata-protecting-an-odata-service-using-oauth-2-0.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/odatateam/archive/2011/01/21/connecting-to-an-oauth-2-0-protected-odata-service.aspx

Also, I recommend the following video by Scott Hanselman which provides an informative and fun discussion of OData. http://app.looplogic.com/azgroups/odata-begins

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