Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
    • What Are XML Web Services?
    • Creating Your First Web Service
    • Consuming XML Web Services
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Exercises
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

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

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