Summary

In this chapter, we took a look at the many different ways that you could use a Web Service. Whether building an application that runs on the desktop or on the Internet, you can use a Web Service. The skills you need to access that Web Service transfer between environments quite easily. From my perspective, that is the strongest feature of the .NET implementation of Web Services and the related protocols.

Chapter 1 showed you that Web Services can ride along without SOAP. This time, we took a look at traditional Web Services by calling the Web Methods using SOAP and by looking at the message exchange.