A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic® .NET

Summary

Although this chapter is short, it shows you the basic building blocks for creating Web services. Web services are one of the most exciting technologies in the .NET Framework because they allow you to use the architecture of the Internet as a way to extend the distributed nature of applications. No longer are you tied to accessing components only within your organization. Now you can access components anywhere, via HTTP. And you can do it without worrying about firewalls, or what operating systems exist on the host or the client.