Chapter 7. Building Distributed Applications

Allowing communication between software running on separate computers is an essential part of modern software. Different distributed applications have different requirements, however, and so various technologies have been created to do this. This chapter describes the three most important approaches to building distributed applications that the .NET Framework provides: ASP.NET Web Services, .NET Remoting, and Enterprise Services.

ASP.NET Web Services: System.Web.Services

In the last ten years, nothing has had a bigger impact on software development than the World Wide Web. Browser-based applications became the norm as the world adopted this new ...

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