Web Service Processing in .NET

Before talking about ASP.NET, this is a good time to show .NET's architecture as a whole. Web Services and ASP.NET fill a part of the picture, but they require assistance from nearly all parts of the .NET architecture. Figure 6.1 gives you what Microsoft calls the “Big Picture.”

Figure 6.1. “Big Picture” .NET architecture.

Your Web Service sits atop the .NET Framework, unless you're using BizTalk, in which case you'll work with .NET through the BizTalk orchestration layer. .NET itself works with the Windows operating system, including COM+ and Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS), to provide a rich host environment ...

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