ASP.NET Platform Services

The ASP.NET platform provides a rich set of services for all types of Web applications. You can harness many of these features in your XML Web services just by deriving your XML Web service class from System.Web.Service.WebService.

<WebService(Namespace:="http://www.prosetech.com/", _
 Description:="Methods to interact with the Customers table.")> _
Public Class CustomerDB
    Inherits WebService

By inheriting from WebService, your class gains four additional properties, as shown in Table 5-4. These features include a few heavyweights, such as authentication and caching, that we’ll return to in later chapters. These prebuilt features are so useful that in many situations you’ll find it easier to build a large-scale performance-optimal ...

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