Overview of Web Services and .NET
Web Services are ASP.NET programmable entities that provide particular functionality and are accessible to any other systems through the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), a technology that uses Internet standard XML and HTTP. Web Services are based on the XML standard and other Internet standards in order to provide an interface that is usable not only by other .NET applications but also applications written in other languages and on other platforms.
A Web Service can either be used internally by a single application or exposed to be used externally over the Internet. By using an XML-based protocol as the fundamental communication method, the technology gap between systems is eliminated. Developers ...
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