C# 3.0 Unleashed: With the .NET Framework 3.5

Get full access to C# 3.0 Unleashed: With the .NET Framework 3.5 and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Start your free trial

Chapter 33 Writing Traditional ASMX Web Services

A web service is a distributed computing technology that enables the exposure and reuse of logical business entities over the Internet. There are all types of distributed computing technologies, but the emphasis here is on open standards. In particular, these are based on World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) protocols and communications standards.

With open standards, businesses can deploy components on the Web to be consumed by anyone, anywhere. ...

Get C# 3.0 Unleashed: With the .NET Framework 3.5 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now