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A Web service is a software component that you can call over the Web, and one of the key features of .NET is the ability to easily create Web services. Companies can create Web services to allow their customers to interact with them.
Because Web services return and accept data in the form of XML documents, Web services are truly platform independent. For example, you could have a Web service written in C# communicate with another Web service written in Java, passing data in the form of XML documents.
In this chapter, you saw how to create a Web service using VS .NET and use it in a Windows application. You also saw how to register a Web service so that other organizations can use your service.
I hope you found this book informative and useful, and I hope I've held your interest! Database programming with C# is a very large subject, but armed with this book, I have every confidence you will master it.
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