Web Services and Reporting

Question

What is web services in asp.net. and how it is important.

Ramesh Maruthi · Answer

Hi Nitish Please look at this below links it was well explained and got an example for you to create a webservice and consume it in asp.net :) http://www.aspdotnet-suresh.com/2011/05/aspnet-web-service-or-creating-and.html http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/337535/Understanding-the-Basics-of-Web-Service-in-ASP-NET

Abhishek Singh · Answer

Nitish Web services is the mechanism that ASP.NET framework provides to make it easy for us to write code to facilitate connectivity between applications. As ASP.NET developer If I need an application that will be used by many other applications then I can simply decide to write a web service for it and ASP.NET framework will take care of doing the low level SOAP and XML work for us. On other side if our ASP.NET application wants to use a web service i.e. an application that is providing me SOAP based interface for communication. So what we are going to do now is write a small Web service to see how we can have our application communication-ready for other applications and secondly we will try to consume a webservice to understand how we can use other applications from our application. A web service is a web-based functionality accessed using the protocols of the web to be used by the web applications. Steps for using: 1.Creating the web service 2.reating a proxy 3.Consuming the web service Note : WCF frame work is more secure reliable and fast and have option for data communication. Abhishek