Visual Studio .NET Web Service Support
Visual Studio .NET is fully Web Service–aware. Because of this, Visual Studio .NET has many features and functions that make life with Web Services easier. You saw some of these in the previous chapter, “Web Services in ASP.NET,” where Visual Studio .NET not only created your Web Service projects but also connected to them through the Internet Information Service Web server as Web applications. You also saw how easy it was to deploy Web Services, and I mentioned that you can even create projects on remote systems. This is one powerful tool.
But there's more.
One nice feature is that Web Services are easily integrated into your client applications by associating the Web Service with a Web reference. Like ...
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