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Web service provider

Web service provider is a network application that uses Internet protocols to advertise and provide services to Web …

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Web Service Protocols

Web Service Protocols are open communication standards that are key technologies in the .NET Web Services architecture. These protocols include WSDL, HTTP, XML, SOAP, …

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Web service consumer

Web service consumer is an application that uses Internet protocols to access the information and functionality made available by a Web …

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Web service

Web service is an application hosted on a Web server that provides information and services to other network applications using the HTTP and XML protocols. A Web service is conceptually an URL-addressable library of functionality that is completely independent of the consumer and stateless in …

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Visual Studio

This development tool contains a rich set of productivity and debugging features. The Visual Studio setup CDs (or DVD) include the complete .NET Framework, so you won’t need to download …

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SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)

SOAP is a lightweight, XML-based messaging protocol used to encode the information in Web service request and response messages before sending them over a network. SOAP messages are independent of any operating system or protocol, and may be transported using a variety of Internet protocols such as SMTP, MIME, …

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Service

Service is an application that provides information and/or functionality to other applications. Services are typically non-human-interactive applications that run on servers and interact with applications via an interface. A service may expose a synchronous, programmatic interface (i.e., an API), allowing it to be tightly-coupled with a consumer, or use asynchronous, message-based communications (e.g., HTTP, XML, and SOAP) to …

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