Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition
by Paul J. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc., Harvey M. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc.
22.8. Wrap-Up
This chapter introduced ASP.NET Web services—a technology that enables users to request and receive data via the Internet and promotes software reusability in distributed systems. You learned that a Web service is a class that allows client software to call the Web service’s methods remotely via common data formats and protocols, such as XML, HTTP and SOAP. We discussed several benefits of this kind of distributed computing—e.g., clients can access certain data on remote machines, and clients lacking the processing power necessary to perform specific computations can leverage remote machines’ resources.
We explained how Visual Basic 2005 Express, Visual Web Developer 2005 Express and the .NET Framework facilitate creating and consuming ...
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