What is the difference between a ASP.net web service and a ASP.net web applicaiton?
Printable View
What is the difference between a ASP.net web service and a ASP.net web applicaiton?
a web application is what you know asp .net as.
a web service is a set of functions you can call from anywhere like you would with a regualr local dll.
Cander a web application is what you know asp .net as.
a web service is a set of functions you can call from anywhere like you would with a regualr local dll.
And
That is accessed through the same protcol as html allowing access to information to seemlessly pass from inside of one firewall to inside of anohter.
Technically the Web service itself can't be accessed just like a regular .NET assembly (DLL), however .NET comes with a tool that reads the WSDL for the Web Service and creates a proxy class for you which handles all the SOAP messages and exposes a method to enable you to call it like you would anyother assembly.