Chapter 6. .NET Web Services

It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.

—Voltaire

In Chapter 1 you learned how easy it is to create and invoke a simple Web service using .NET. This was a good start and was intended to get you hooked on creating Web services. Practically however, the Web services you create will need to do much more than just add two numbers. This chapter will build on what you've learned in Chapters 1 through 4 and dive deeper into the details of creating and invoking Web services using .NET. You will learn how to build .NET Web services, customize their WSDL, and invoke them using .NET clients. Even if you have not read Chapters 2 through 4, you can still learn a lot from this chapter. If you skipped ...

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