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Q&A

Q1:	Web services are cool. Are they efficient? It seems like a lot of XML coming down the pipe.
A1:	Web services are a little chunky in file size. The main benefit of Web services is they are cross-platform and cross-language. If saving every bit of network bandwidth is an issue and you're running a complete Microsoft server and client solution, you should look at .NET remoting using binary TCP formatters. .NET remoting is highly efficient.
Q2:	How does early binding occur? How does .NET know all the methods in the Web service?
A2:	When you reference the ASMX file and add the WSDL to your solution, Visual Studio .NET creates a proxy class that's built in the language of your project and contains all the properties and methods that are read from ...