Summary

This chapter offered a fairly quick overview of Web services and clients and the fundamental techniques needed to start creating them in .NET. We also covered how to deploy these services and register them for public consumption.

In the remainder of Part I, we’ll look in depth at the standards that make up the Web services platform and the .NET classes and attributes that immediately enable you to work with those standards. Part II will make a more detailed case for building services and their clients before we go on to extend them into traditional Web realms and beyond. Part III will look at what Web services might evolve into and the changes being made in that direction.