.NET Security and Cryptography

Accessing a Web Service

There are two primary steps when working with Web services: creating a Web service and accessing a Web service. We discussed how to create a Web service and test it in the IE test page. Let us now explore how to develop a Windows Form client. In consuming a Web service, the client application has to locate, reference, and invoke the functionality in a Web service. A Web service client can be any type of .NET application, such as a Web or Windows application. Let's create a simple Windows Form client for the Concatenate Web service. The fundamental steps in consuming Web services are as follows:

• Locate the Web service by using the Add Web Reference dialog box (if you are using Visual Studio .NET).
• Generate a proxy class ...