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Using a Web Service Within an Application

One of the advantages of Web Services is that they can provide functionality that other applications and even other Web Services can use to build new solutions. You can use Web Services published by other organizations, or you can use your own organization's Web Services. Either way, your use of the Web Service is the same.

In order to demonstrate using a Web Service within an application, create a new managed C++ application named WebServiceApp. The Visual Studio .NET template creates a console application that will work for this test application. You could just as easily use the Web Service from a Windows Form–based application in the same manner.

Adding Web References

Adding a Web reference allows ...