Creating Web Services

A key highlight of the .NET Framework and associated toolsets is development of Web services. Web services development will be discussed in further detail in Chapter 9, “Developing Web Services.” In this section, however, you'll become familiar with how Visual Studio .NET supports development of Web services by developing a very simple Web service. After selecting a language of choice (in this case Visual C#), we select the ASP.NET Web Service project type in the New Project Wizard to develop a Web service, as shown in Figure 5.20.

Figure 5.20. Visual C#/ASP.NET Web service project wizard.

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