webservices

Question

What is the use of the Webservice in asp.net? And what is the differences between the webapplication&windowsapplication?

Krishna Garad · Answer

Hi Webservices are the services written which provide some facility. Webservices generally contain webmethods which we can use over network. webservices are present in remote machine. If we want that functionality we can use this webservice. Web application are our websites. This web apps are present on server machine and we are accessing those application from our client machine. Generally communicating with web apps we have to talk with them with http. Windows apps are specially made for running @ one place.

Soft Corner · Answer

By using Web services your application can publish its function or message to the rest of the world.Web services use XML to code and to decode data and SOAP to transport it (using open protocols). Web Services have Two Types of Uses Reusable application-components. There are things applications need very often. So why make these over and over again? Web services can offer application-components like: currency conversion weather reports or even language translation as services. Connect existing software. Web services can help to solve the interoperability problem by giving different applications a way to link their data. With Web services you can exchange data between different applications and different platforms. Difference :- Web Application: In software engineering a Web application or webapp is an application that is accessed via Web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. It is also a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language (such as HTML ASP PHP Perl Python etc.) and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable. Web applications are popular due to the ubiquity of a client sometimes called a thin client. The ability to update and maintain Web applications without distributing and installing software on potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason for their popularity. Common Web applications include Webmail online retail sales online auctions wikis discussion boards Weblogs MMORPGs and many other functions. Windows Application: A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well.

Suthish Nair · Answer

Hi Web services is a type of website that hosted on a server and accessed via standard Web protocols. refer msdn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972326.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t745kdsh.aspx