Consuming Web Services
After a Web service is created and published on the Internet another entity, such as a business partner, client, or customer can use the Web service. This is referred to as consuming a Web service. The consumer can make a call to the Web service using any of the available protocols, Http-Get, Http-Post, or SOAP. The consumer of a Web service can be a Web application, a desktop application with Internet access, or another Web service.
To utilize a Web service, the consumer makes a proxy client, which provides programmatic access to all the exposed WebMethods in the Web service. The proxy client can be coded by hand, but it is much easier to use a utility to generate the proxy client. The .NET Framework SDK ships with a utility, ...
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