Applied SOAP: Implementing .NET XML Web Services

finger Web Service in C#

As mentioned previously, the old Unix finger command reached into a user's account and retrieved a file that contained user information. This information then was returned to the caller—perhaps the caller needed to know a phone number or location where the user could generally be found. This example won't access individual Window user accounts, but it will show you how to access a database using ADO.NET and C#.

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If you've done any database programming at all, you know that it's far better to place your SQL queries in a stored procedure than inline in your business layer. Yet that's exactly what we've done for this example. The reason for this is simply that it's easier to distribute a self-contained Access database ...