Webservices What are they and how do they help my business?

Web Services
Conceptual Overviews

Overview of Microsoft .NET
Microsoft^™ .NET is a set of software technologies for connecting information, people, systems, and devices. It includes a powerful technology called ASP.NET which developers can use to build web applications and web services. This document provides an overview of the Microsoft .NET development platform.

How Web Services Work
In this animation, you will see how you can use Web services in your Microsoft Visual Basic .NET-based applications, how the Web services Description Language provides information about the Web services, and how Visual Basic .NET uses SOAP to create proxies. This content is best viewed with Macromedia Flash Player.

Web Services 101
This interactive animation explains how Web services can help companies connect standalone systems and share information between various applications. It also looks at how Microsoft .NET-connected software can be the foundation of Web service solutions.

The need for XML Web Services
This module provides you with an understanding of the problem space that XML (Extensible Markup Language) Web services address. The module compares various approaches to implementing distributed applications. This content is best viewed with Adobe Reader.

XML Web Services Execution Model
In this animation, you will see a step by step execution of a Web service request. This content is best viewed with Macromedia Flash Player.