Find out how Web Services work and are created in the .Net framework. This article introduces the concepts of Web Services, the technology and then demonstrates how Web Services are created and consumed via several examples. Source code available for download.
Web Services promise to bring information into your applications from the Internet in much the same way that browers have made information available to end users. The .Net framework introduces Web Services as an integral part of the architecture, making it very easy to create and consume these services with minimal amounts of code written. In fact, if you read Microsoft's documentation, Web Services are featured as the new component architecture in the distributed age where not only Internet exposure is handled through them but also common reusable business and application services.
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