Chapter 14. Effective Use of Networking and Regular Expressions: Mining Data

In This Chapter:

• Regular Expressions

• Example Programs That Use Regular Expressions

• Web Services Overview

• SOAP

• Discovery

• Creating Web Services

• Consuming Web Services

• Web Service Security

• Web Service Transactions

• Data Scraping Web Services

Web Services are one of the most exciting things to be introduced to .NET. Web Services have the potential for changing everything that you do in your Web development. They can simplify your development tasks and they can also provide you with opportunities that previously would have been very difficult to carry out.

This chapter talks about Web Services, showing you what they are, what you would use them for, and walking you through their creation and use.