Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Web Services and Microsoft .NET

A key highlight of the introduction of the .NET platform, the core .NET Framework, has been the support of Web services. If you have been following the initial press releases related to .NET, you will notice the marketing emphasis given to Web services support. It is perhaps true that in a sense, Microsoft, and the whole industry in general, overhyped a whole lot of benefits (also known as immediate ROI) to Web services. However, Web services support in the .NET Framework is for real. Since the initial release of the .NET Framework (version 1.0), a number of technology enhancements (called Web Services Enhancements, discussed later in this chapter) have been released to add manageability, security, and flexibility ...