My presentation on WebServices Basics. Here is the content: Web services – Definition: A web service is a collection of protocols and standards used for exchanging data between applications or systems. Characteristics Demo: Writing a simple WebService in Visual Studio 2005 & Consuming WebServices Technologies: XML (eXtensible Markup Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web services description language), UDDI (universal description, discovery, and integration) SOAP: SOAP is an open protocol specification defining a uniform way of performing RPCs using HTTP as the underlying communications protocol with XML for the data serialization. Drilling inside SoapHttpClientProtocol class Advantages of Web services SOA – Service Oriented Architecture, Four Tenets