Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Summary

This chapter presented both ASP.NET web services and those built on WCF. You saw how .NET abstracts the programming of services and provides tools to make your life easier. In this way, you can concentrate on building business functionality (and not writing plumbing code). Some key points in this chapter include the following:

• Web services are based on open standards. .NET adheres to these standards to ensure that heterogeneous applications can all work together with web services.

• An ASP.NET web service consists of an .asmx file that points to the code behind the service. A web service works only across HTTP. This .asmx file represents the URI to the service.

• A WCF service can be created with multiple endpoints to efficiently ...