Summary

The art to building great web services has very little to do with writing code. Most of the work in building web services is in design and architecture. This chapter provided you with an overview of the goals and concepts behind Service-Oriented Architecture and how that applies to building web services. This chapter also covered a few techniques that can help to reduce artificial dependencies, such as using SOAP headers for data transmission and implicit authentication, as well as a handy shortcut for binding data in a Windows Forms control to information retrieved from a web service.