Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET

Yesterday you learned about XML and how it's a flexible and extensible mechanism for working with data. Today you learn how extensible markup language (XML) can be used in a distributed architecture. By using XML Web services as your means of distributing application functionality, you can take what used to be available only on your computer and make it available to the whole world. Best of all, you don't have to write any extra code to make it happen. Today, you learn

• What XML Web services are

• How to create Web services using Visual Studio .NET

• How to pass data from SQL Server via Web services

• How to consume an XML Web service from a Windows Forms application

• How to consume an XML Web service from an ASP.NET application

• How to consume an XML Web service from VBScript in DHTML