Graphical User Interface (GUI) Applications

GUI applications are known as Windows applications in Visual Studio .NET. The big advantage of a GUI is that you can show much more data to the user at once. In addition to text, you can harness the full power of graphics to compartmentalize data or translate that information into whatever makes the most sense. By now, most developers are familiar with the advantages of a GUI—easy menu navigation, event-driven programming, richer user interaction models, and so on. Because all of these advantages exist, it only makes sense to be able to access Web Service here as well. This time around, we will access the FirstService.GetRandomNumbers Web Method. To begin, we must first create a Windows Application ...

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