Course Number: 2524A Released: 10/2001

Delivery Guide
Developing XML Web
Services Using Microsoft
®
Visual C#
™
.NET Beta 2
Part Number: X08-51644
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Microsoft Certified Professional Program...............................................................8

Facilities.................................................................................................................10

Module 1: The Need for Web Services
Overview..................................................................................................................1

Evolution of Distributed Applications.....................................................................2

Problems with Traditional Distributed Applications ...............................................4

Introducing Web Services......................................................................................15

The Web Technology Stack and .NET ..................................................................18

The .NET Alternatives to Web Services................................................................20

Common Web Service Scenarios...........................................................................22

Review...................................................................................................................24

Module 2: Web Service Architectures
Overview..................................................................................................................1

Service-Oriented Architecture .................................................................................2

Web Service Architectures and Service-Oriented Architecture...............................5

Roles in a Web Service Architecture.......................................................................9



Module 5: Implementing a Simple Web Service
Overview..................................................................................................................1

Creating a Web Service Project...............................................................................2

Implementing Web Service Methods.....................................................................13

Managing State in an ASP.NET Web Service.......................................................33

Debugging Web Services.......................................................................................41

Lab 5: Implementing a Simple Web Service .........................................................59

Review...................................................................................................................73
iv Developing XML Web Services Using Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET Beta 2 Module 6: Publishing and Deploying Web Services
Overview................................................................................................................. 1

Overview of UDDI.................................................................................................. 2

Publishing a Web Service..................................................................................... 17

Finding a Web Service.......................................................................................... 20

Publishing a Web Service on an Intranet.............................................................. 22

Configuring a Web Service................................................................................... 24


Performance.......................................................................................................... 13

Reliability.............................................................................................................. 26

Versioning............................................................................................................. 32

ISP and ASP Deployment..................................................................................... 34

Architectural Elements.......................................................................................... 36

Review .................................................................................................................. 39
Module 9: Implementing a Nonstandard Web Service
Overview................................................................................................................. 1

HTML Screen Scraping Web Services ................................................................... 2

Aggregating Web Services.................................................................................... 13

Lab 9: Implementing an Aggregated Web Service............................................... 17

Review .................................................................................................................. 28

Developing XML Web Services Using Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET Beta 2 v About This Course
This section provides you with a brief description of the course, audience,
suggested prerequisites, and course objectives.
Description


Programming in
Microsoft Component
Object Model (COM)
or JavaBeans

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Programming in
COM+ or Enterprise
JavaBeans

!Familiarity with
Extensible Markup
Language (XML)

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