A Web service provides functionality that you can access over the Internet—you call a Web service and get a result in return. What's new about Web services is that you are now connecting to services over the world's largest network—the Internet. However, as a Visual Basic programmer the ugly details of working over the Internet are taken care of for you.
In this document, you'll see how to access a Web service using Visual Studio .NET. You'll review the process for creating a Web service with Visual Basic 6.0 and the SOAP Toolkit, version 2.0. You'll also see how to convert your existing SOAP Toolkit applications to use Web services in the .NET Framework.
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