MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C#™ .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework
by Amit Kalani, Priti Kalani
Introduction
You have probably heard quite a bit of hype about Web services in conjunction with the .NET Framework. In fact, Microsoft has gone so far as to sometimes describe the .NET Framework as “an XML Web services platform that will enable developers to create programs that transcend device boundaries and fully harness the connectivity of the Internet” (msdn.microsoft.com/net). You may also run across a lot of complex and confusing explanations of the architecture of these Web services. But at their most basic level, Web services are simple: They are a means for interacting with objects over the Internet.
Seen in that light, Web services are part of a natural progression:
Object-oriented languages such as C++ and C# enable two objects within ...
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