Programming the Windows Runtime by Example: A Comprehensive Guide to WinRT with Examples in C# and XAML

5. Web Services and Syndication

Making two computers talk to each other 20 years ago was not an easy task. Literally hundreds of data formats existed, and exchanging even simple information often required complex software that could adapt and transform the data among various systems. Extensible Markup Language (XML) emerged as a human-readable standard for information in the late 1990s and was used to define the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) developed for Microsoft. SOAP¹ is no longer an acronym, likely because there is nothing simple about dealing with it.

¹SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer, http://bit.ly/16BoC2A

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