Summary
This chapter explained how to create and use Web Services. Now that you know the basics of Web Services and how they work, you are well equipped to learn more advanced techniques to use with Web Services, such as sending and returning custom data structures and ADO.NET datasets.
In this chapter, you learned how to create Web Service proxies with the .NET framework tools and automatically with Visual Studio.NET. You learned how a client program can use proxy class to call remote Web Services.
You also learned how Web Services communicate with client programs using the SOAP protocol. You saw examples of SOAP requests and learned why Web Services are used together with Web servers such as IIS.