The System.Web.Services Namespace

XML Web Services provide one of the newest and most exciting technologies for development, as far as we're concerned. Although the .NET platform, and Visual Studio .NET in particular, makes it easy to get started creating XML Web Services, Web Services have been available for some time on the Microsoft platform, thanks to the SOAP Toolkit. (Stop by http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml for more information on the SOAP Toolkit and how it can enable you to consume Web Services in non-.NET client applications.)

XML Web Services make it possible to execute method calls provided by objects via the Web. Distributed components have been available for years, in the form of ActiveX components accessed via DCOM, but Web Services ...

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