.NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation

This chapter covers the interesting technological features in the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET for building Web service clients. Specifically, the .NET Framework software...

The .NET Framework SDK comes with two command-line tools for building XML Web service clients: disco.exe and wsdl.exe. The first, disco.exe, uses the DISCO (Web...

When using Visual Studio .NET, building clients to Web services is even easier. It's nearly as easy as adding a reference to a regular API...

At times, you will want to build your client class by hand, or seriously modify the client class that wsdl.exe creates for you. Building Document-Literal...

Errors are handled on the client by catching exceptions. Generally speaking, you will catch two types of exceptions: Web exceptions from network errors such as...

At times you will want to extend the client that Visual Studio .NET's Add Web Reference dialog box or wsdl.exe creates for you. For example,...

With .NET, you can not only build Web services, but also create clients to access those Web services. With Visual Studio .NET, the tools for...