Applied SOAP: Implementing .NET XML Web Services

Web Services

A quick overview of the Web Service features in .NET is in order before you encounter them throughout the rest of this book.

NOTE

For you to use the System.Web.Services classes in your Visual Studio .NET project, you must first add the System.Web.Services.dll reference to your project. Refer to the Solution Explorer window.

Discovery

As the consumer of a Web Service, you might or might not know exactly how to locate a service that you want to use. For instance, if you go out looking for a StockQuote service, it's likely that a standard Web search engine will produce some possible clues. However, you would have to do this manually and feed your program the appropriate information after the service was found.

The idea of discovery ...