XML Web Services and SOAP

We embark upon our subject of Web Services with the primary assumption that you have read either our book on ASP.NET, or any one of the innumerable others, strewn all over the market. So, we will not submerge ourselves into every microscopic detail about either the C# programming language or ASP.NET. This book is fully dedicated to the understanding and building of Web Services, since Microsoft has precluded all the other options for building commercial applications for the Net. A Web Service is a piece of program code placed on the Server, such that it can thereon be accessed or executed by the entire world.