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Hi brgdotnet,<br />
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Thank you for this. I have been looking at a few of the links already now.
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Hi brgdotnet,

Thank you for this. I have been looking at a few of the links already now.

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I am glad you found them helpful. Don't hesitate to ask more questions if you need to.
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I am glad you found them helpful. Don't hesitate to ask more questions if you need to.

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I have access to .Net 3.5 ( VS2008 ) and will need to do a small application that will reside in the Windows server ( so it will be a Windows desktop application )'<br />
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I have created windows application but not web apps or connecting to web services.<br />
Appreciate if someone can give me some tips to where to look for appropriate sample code.<br />
I have heard that depending on the web service the technique of connecting and referencing are different. &nbsp;also there are apparently &quot;restful/non-restuful web services&quot; etc &nbsp;- that I need to be concerned about.<br />
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at the moment we do not have information what type of web service it is - so I need to learn some generic stuff to start with. &nbsp;Its a reputed company giving the web service so, I am expecting it to be newer technology.
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I have access to .Net 3.5 ( VS2008 ) and will need to do a small application that will reside in the Windows server ( so it will be a Windows desktop application )'

I have created windows application but not web apps or connecting to web services.
Appreciate if someone can give me some tips to where to look for appropriate sample code.
I have heard that depending on the web service the technique of connecting and referencing are different.  also there are apparently "restful/non-restuful web services" etc  - that I need to be concerned about.

at the moment we do not have information what type of web service it is - so I need to learn some generic stuff to start with.  Its a reputed company giving the web service so, I am expecting it to be newer technology.

Connecting to webservices using .Net

A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over a network. It is a software function provided at a network address over the Web with the service always on as in the concept of utility computing. A web service has an interface described in Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Other systems interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages. There are two major classes of Web services: REST-compliant web services, and Arbitrary web services.

Web Services

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a tool used to implement and deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support distributed computing where services have remote consumers. It features a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications. Services typically have a WSDL interface (Web Services Description Language) that any WCF client can use to consume the service, regardless of which platform the service is hosted on. WCF implements many advanced Web services (WS) standards such as WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, RSS Syndication Services, WS-Discovery, routing and better support for REST services.

The .NET Framework is not specific to any one programming language; rather, it includes a library of functions that allows developers to rapidly build applications. Several supported languages include C#, VB.NET, C++ or ASP.NET.