Web Services: Building Reusable Web Components with SOAP and ASP.NET(English)

Web Services: Building Reusable Web Components with SOAP and ASP.NET(English)

Services: Building Reusable Web Components with SOAP and ASP.NET

David S. Platt

This article assumes you’re familiar with XML and Visual Basic

Level of Difficulty 1 2 3

Download the code for this article: WebComp.exe(93KB)

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SUMMARY XML and HTTP are cross-platform technologies especially suited for building applications that can communicate with each other over the Internet, regardless of the platform they are running on. Web Services in the Microsoft .NET Framework make it easy to write components that communicate using HTTP GET, HTTP POST, and SOAP.

An understanding of these concepts, along with knowledge of synchronous and asynchronous operations, security, state management, and the management of proxies by the .NET Framework is essential in building these applications.