Web Services and Visual Studio .NET

This book really isn't about using Visual Studio as a tool. It's about developing code designed to work within the .NET Framework. You created your first .NET Web Service in Chapter 1, “Web Service Fundamentals.” Even so, it's probably worth discussing more detailed aspects of the project that Visual Studio .NET created for you.

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Before we get too far, developers often wonder if they can create .NET Web Services outside Visual Studio .NET. Although creating a Web Service project isn't rocket science, it also isn't as easy as creating a console application. You can't just whip out a quick Notepad source file and compile it using the command-line compiler. You have several source files to deal with, including ...

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