Summary

This chapter has been all about consuming web services from within Windows Forms application. Not only did you see the very basics of adding web references to your projects via Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the WSDL.EXE command-line tool, but we also went through various ways to keep your end-user experience rich, reliable, stable, fast, responsive, and agile. You saw how to do this by using multithreaded, asynchronous access to the web service, using dynamic URLs, trapping exceptions, consuming UDDI, and supported untethered offline access.