Chapter 5. Basic Web Services

Terms you'll need to understand:

  • Disco

  • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

  • Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)

  • Web method

  • Web reference

  • Web service

  • Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

Techniques you'll need to master:

  • Creating a Web service

  • Instantiating and invoking a Web service

  • Customizing the WebMethod attribute

  • Using the Web reference feature of Visual Studio .NET to locate Web services and automatically generate proxy classes for them

  • Using a tool such as the .NET WebService Studio to inspect SOAP messages and WSDL files to see what's happening as you interact with a Web service

Web services are a means for interacting with objects over the Internet. This makes them a natural extension to .NET remoting, ...

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