Summary
This chapter was devoted to consumers of Web Services. Although it concentrated on executable applications as consumers, there is no reason that you can't have another Web Service as a client.
Visual Studio .NET was created with Web Services in mind. Because of this, it is easy not only to create Web Services but also to create clients for those Web Services. However, you are not required to use Visual Studio .NET. For example, WSDL.exe will create for you the proxy that you require to access the remote method. Both tools enable you to shift the storage of the Web Service URL from a hard-coded value to a value stored in the application's configuration file.
The chapter then looked at using the Web Service from both a synchronous and asynchronous ...
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