ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart By Paul D. Sheriff, Ken Getz
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Part IV. Web Services
OBJECTIVES
Learn how to create Web Services
Create a simple Windows application that consumes a Web Service
Create Web Service methods that expose data
Bind a DataGrid to the results of a Web Service method
In this chapter, you'll create two XML Web Services. The first, in this section, will be quite simple: Its goal will be to add two numbers together that you supply. The second, in the next section, will retrieve requested information back from SQL Server. In both cases, you're creating functionality that resides remotely any application that has access to the Internet could consume the resulting Web Services and use the functionality remotely. Although you've already created a very simple Web Service in the previous chapter, the examples presented here begin to demonstrate the kinds of things (for example, calculations) you might actually want to do with XML Web Services.
