Chapter 13. A Web Service Walkthrough

The only source of knowledge is experience.

—Albert Einstein

To wrap up the book and summarize much of what has been covered, this chapter walks you through the process of building a live Web service. You will learn to design Web service messages, to form those messages with .NET attributes, and to apply the authentication and authorization infrastructure to a new Web service. You'll benefit the most by building the Web service in this chapter and following along as I explain each step.

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