Creating and Consuming Web Services in Visual Basic®

Chapter 1. Create Your First Web Service

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The “Hello World” Operation

• Other Files in the Project

• Passing Complex Types

• Returning Arrays of Simple Types

• Returning Arrays of Structures

If you have never written a Visual Basic .NET Web Service before, you are in the right place. You may be under the impression that Web Services are hard to write and deploy. With many toolkits, that impression is 100% correct. Fortunately, .NET was designed with Web Services in mind, making their coding and deployment an easy task. As someone who has used several of the more popular toolkits out there, I can honestly say that .NET is by far the easiest to use.

In this chapter, we are going to develop a Web Service that exposes a set of operations that ...