Creating a Web Service in Visual Studio .NET

In this section, you will see how Visual Studio .NET helps you generate a Web Service, as well as build a consumer application of that service. You will see how WSDL plays a critical part in bringing together the service requestor and the service provider. Finally, you will have an opportunity to use a network-tracing application to analyze request and response SOAP messages.

Creating the Service

In this example, you will create a Persistence application that allows a client to store name/value pairs on the server. Although this implementation of a property bag is far from full-featured, you can see how a simple Web Service can bridge the gab between heterogeneous systems wanting to share state information. ...

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