Creating ASP.NET Web Services

Learn to use ASP.NET to create Web services. Excerpt: Using the .NET Framework, it's easy to get a basic service up and running. In just a few minutes and fewer lines of code, you can put together a simple "Hello World" service without any understanding of HTTP, SOAP, WSDL or any of the several technologies that form the basis for web services. In fact, if you're a Microsoft Visual Studio .NET user, all you need to do to create a simple "Hello, World" service is to open a new Visual C# or Visual Basic ASP.NET Web Service project and uncomment the sample code provided by the template.