VB.Net Web Developer's Guide

Developing Web Applications • Chapter 10 509

9. Because the GetOrders function uses ADO.NET to connect to the

database, we have to import those namespaces into our class.Add this

import statement to the class:

Imports System.Data.SqlClient

10. In order to test it, build the application and type the URL of this Web

service into the browser. Now you will see two methods instead of one

method shown in Figure 10.12. Enter the Customer ID HANAR or

any valid Customer ID.You will see that ASP.NET returns the orders in

XML format.

We have created a Web service with two Web methods in it. Later on in this

chapter we create a Web consumer and a Windows consumer ...