ASMX Pages
ASP.NET was designed to provide a web service infrastructure and programming model that allows developers to create, deploy, and maintain web services without the need to understand SOAP, WSDL, and so on. ASP.NET accomplished this goal through the introduction of XML web services, which is built on top of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework. Developers can easily create web services by creating files with .asmx extension(for example, Customers.asmx) and deploying them as part of a web application. Like ASPX files, ASMX files are intercepted by an ISAPI extensio(aspnet_isapi.dll) and processed in a separate ASP.NET worker process. The ASMX file must either reference a .NET class or contain the class itself. The only mandatory entry in the ...
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