Service-Oriented Application Services over WCF

With the default service proxies and the default server-side ASP.NET AJAX implementation, you can fully integrate application services on the client with little effort. These services, however, are designed only for the AJAX application and aren’t meant to be used by remote clients. Ideally, it’s a best practice to design the application with service orientation in mind. This way, service implementations can be used by remote clients without the need to rewrite the services. Fortunately, a service implementation designed for remote access is defined in System.Web.ApplicationServices, which is defined in the assembly System.Web.Extensions.

System.Web.ApplicationServices provides Web services for authentication, ...

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