Web Services

Hi All,

What are the web services (.asmx files)?

When these are used? what is the purpose of these web services?

Give some brief idea about this.

Thanking you

Abdul

Web services are like any other function in the .cs file. It has an attribute [webmethod()] mentioned at the top of the function.

Webservices are used to communicate with some other application or something like that.

eg: if you are a wholesaler/manufacturer. You want the retailers to place an order online. you dont want them to have an direct access to you database or sensitive data. so you create a web service which ll display the required data to the retailers.You can also publish the web service so that others can also use your web service.

Hi,

Here is a complete articles especially 1st one

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/100803-1.aspx

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/062602-1.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/webservices/myservice.asp http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-3513_11-5643603.htmlhttp://www.aspfree.com/c/a/ASP/Consuming-a-WSDL-Webservice-from-ASP/http://www.codeproject.com/soap/ConsumWebServicefromASP.asp