title: Web Service or web API for connecting a windows application to MVC 4?
body: <p>After searching the entire day about what I should use, I'm not sure what option would be best for my needs so I hope someone with more experience could help me out.</p>
  
  <p>I have a <code>winforms</code> application (<code>c#</code>) and a <code>ASP.NET MVC 4</code> web application (<code>c#</code>).
  I wish to connect these, the goal is to send and receive data from the database which I use in the <code>MVC 4</code> project, but from within the windows forms application. The data I send from the windows forms application to the database, is then used by the <code>MVC 4</code> web application.</p>
  
  <p>I am entirely new to web services / <code>Web Api</code>'s so I can't really decide what option would be best. Any help would be much appreciated..</p>