Summary

Web Services are an exciting new development in the distributed application space. As you can see, creating a Web Service can be very simple, but as soon as you start to push the limits of the technology, you need to roll up your sleeves and do the rest of the work. This becomes more apparent when you start trying to return complex structures of data such as FileStreams and DirectoryInfo objects. Many components can be serialized into XML, but that’s not true for everything yet. You have to admit that Microsoft has done a good job so far, though. If you really look at the amount of work that must have been put into .NET to make all of this work, it is really astonishing.

In Chapter 14 we move on into debugging of the .NET components.