Web services are a promising new technology for delivering a variety of consumer and business services over the Internet, from the Google search engine, Microsoft Map Point, and eBay Price Watcher, to B2B back-end systems like Microsoft Passport and in-house integration solutions. Developers are finding Microsoft's .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to be powerful tools for creating and deploying web services.

Programming .NET Web Services provides experienced developers with a fast-paced and comprehensive tutorial that shows you how to develop web services using ASP.NET, Visual Studio .NET, and the attributes and types of the System.Web.Services namespaces of the .NET Framework. Beginning with a close look at the defining web services protocols, especially HTTP, SOAP, and WSDL, Programming .NET Web Services quickly introduces the unique features of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework that make creating and deploying web services easy. Filled with numerous code examples in C#, the book leads you through some of the more challenging issues of web services development, including the use of proxies, the marshalling of simple and complex data types, state management, security, performance tuning, and cross-platform interoperability.