Web services are the next step in building distributed, modularized applications. They allow you to take some of your business logic, compartmentalize it in a component, and execute the functionality ...

Visual Studio .Net, the application development tool for Microsoft Web services, and the .Net Framework, the platform for Web services applications, were introduced by Microsoft chairman and chief ...

"Microsoft actually supports what people are calling 'Web services' - SOAP, xML, etc. - better than Java," says Randy Starr, Countermind's director of mobile and wireless solutions practice.

I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue I'm having with one of our applications. It's a WinForm application that uses Web Services for data access. The Web Service has been included into the WinForm app ...

The company aims to turn up the heat on Java rivals with plans for software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

This starts with support for the available Web services standards – things like both WS* based services, but also including RESTful services as well. If you’ve already adopted a standards-based ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells CNET News.com that although the company's .Net plans were "hard to understand," Redmond is making strides to clarify its Web services vision. Mike Ricciuti joined ...

The lightweight .NET web framework has arrived in a stable 1.0 release, ready to help build front ends and RESTful APIs for cloud applications. Microsoft’s opening up of .NET allowed the metaphorical ...

This alternative to Internet Information Services, which Microsoft uses for its own services, delivers modern dynamic web applications on common server platforms or in containers. Microsoft’s Internet ...

If you've heard the term Web services from vendors and the press lately, you're not alone. While the phrase is bandied about a lot, there's a woeful shortage of substantive discussion. So what are Web ...