Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C#™ .NET and the .NET Framework, Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam 70-320) By Amit Kalani, Priti Kalani
Table of Contents
Terms you'll need to understand:
Disco
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)
Web method
Web reference
Web service
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Techniques you'll need to master:
Creating a Web service
Instantiating and invoking a Web service
Customizing the WebMethod attribute
Using the Web reference feature of Visual Studio .NET to locate Web services and automatically generate proxy classes for them
Using a tool such as the .NET WebService Studio to inspect SOAP messages and WSDL files to see what's happening as you interact with a Web service
Web services are a means for interacting with objects over the Internet. This makes them a natural extension to .NET remoting, which allows objects to interact across processes. In this chapter, you'll see how to build and use Web services in your .NET applications and learn about the major protocols you use when you communicate with a Web service.
