Hour 11. Creating Web Services

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One of the biggest reasons to use the .NET Framework to create applications in Visual C++ .NET over using MFC is the .NET Framework's support for Internet technologies. Even though MDC does provide support for various Internet-related tasks through the WinInet library and ISAPI classes, the .NET Framework expands on these and makes many more technologies available. The .NET Framework makes writing Web-based technology very easy with the provided classes. Web Services are especially well suited to Visual C++ .NET because you can do everything other .NET languages can do, and you can also wrap legacy code with .NET managed classes and make them Web Services for use in Web development. The only caveat to creating Web Services with Visual C++ .NET is that it tends to be more difficult than other .NET languages because C++ itself is a more difficult language to master.

In this hour, you will learn about the features included in the .NET Framework for writing Web Services with Visual C++ .NET. In this hour you will:

• Review the Web Service support in the .NET Framework

• Write a simple .NET Web Service

• Use the new Web Service as part of an application

• Debug and test the Web Service

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