Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

A Simple XML Web Service

This chapter uses a time sheet example of an XML Web service. A central database contains data on the jobs that are being worked on by the users of the sample application. Jobs are allocated to the users in another part of the enterprise, and they have a reference job number and a name. Your application will eventually allow a user to fill in the hours in a day that have been worked against each job allocated. The data is kept in a SQL Server database called DotNetCF. The database file and the sample application are included with this book’s sample files. You’ll need to set up this database before starting the samples for this chapter. (See the accompanying Readme file.)

The first sample simply provides a validation service ...