Summary
Web services are a new, industry-standard mechanism for connecting software components across the Internet. This mechanism is based on HTTP, XML, and SOAP—all widely accepted standards. The .NET Framework provides support for developers of web services and web-service clients, making it just as easy to expose and consume web services as it is to write and use a simple class that exposes methods.
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