Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Sample Web Service

This section demonstrates a simple web service for retrieving an inventory level. This sample web service is created with the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. You can apply this example to many other scenarios in which you need to consume a web service that makes an inquiry into a relational database table.

To begin, you need a computer that meets the prerequisites for creating an ASP.NET application. For more information about these prerequisites, see the Visual Studio documentation. You also need access to the Northwind demo database that is installed with SQL Server.

To create the web service:

1.	Open Visual Studio .NET.
2.	Select New Project from the File menu.
3.	In the New Project dialog box, ...