>>From what I can tell, both of these are transfer protocols. How are they different? Why use one over the other? There is almost so much information available that I'm having a hard time sifting through it all to get to the basics.
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>Are you maybe talking about SOAP vs. .NET Remoting?

No, I'm just very unfamiliar with the protocol layering and I'm going to have to use SOAP for the first time soon. Trying to understand how it works with all the other stuff. I will communicating with a system using .NET and they use SOAP inbetween.