.NET Web Services Solutions
Chapter One
Taking Web Services
for a Test Drive
What's a Web Service?
Understanding Operations That Are Well Suited for Web Services
Retrieving Weather Information
Using a Web Service 101
Retrieving Stock Quotes
Retrieving Book Information
Retrieving Caller-ID Information
Retrieving Traffic Information
Retrieving Airport Information
Where to Find Web Services on the Web
Unlike most discussions of web services that begin with an examination of the underlying
network protocols, this chapter sets aside the underlying details and lets you test drive a
variety of web services that other developers have created and made available on the Web.
You will first experience many of the web services by using your browser to view active server
pages that use the web service to implement their processing. Then, after you understand the
operation the service performs, you will create a program that puts the service to use.
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