Chapter 27. ASP.NET Web Services
An ASP.NET web service is a program capable of communicating across a network such as the Internet by using a combination of the open standard SOAP and XML technologies. (Note that SOAP was previously known as the Simple Object Access Protocol.)
Web services are ideal for creating data-, content-, or processing-related services that can be made available to associated or third-party applications and clients across distributed networks such as the Internet.
In this chapter, you will see how to create a simple ASP.NET web service and a client application to consume, or use, the web service.
In addition, this chapter covers the technologies associated with ASP.NET web services, such as SOAP and theWeb Services Description ...
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