Building Web Services With Vb .Net

Web services form the cornerstone of the .NET architecture, and play a pivotal role in the future of Web development. In essence, a Web service is a piece of programming logic with properties and methods that have been exposed to the Web. Developers can utilize this functionality in their own applications via standardized protocols such as HTTP, SOAP, and XML. This use of standards is extremely important, since it makes Web services consumable by any Web-aware language that understands SOAP and XML. Web services will be heavily used to provide black box functionality to applications for such tasks as notification services, messaging, and data services.