difference between .Net web application and .Net web service

[Eddie Leung]

HI All,

I am beginer of ASP.NET, I have simple question, would anyone help me?
I am not familiar on the difference between .Net web application and .Net
web service.

Thanks,

Eddie

 

[Dan Rogers]

Hi Eddie,

I'm assuming you're referring to the Visual Studio project types called Web
Applicaiton and Web Service. In general, a web applicaiton is a web site -
has visual interfaces, HTML, ASP pages, images, etc. A web service
application is a headless (no visual interface) that exposes programming
methods much like a function library would back in the old days. An
ASP.Net web service is useful for exposing programming interfaces (as
opposed to people interfaces) in a cross platform safe (mostly) manner.

Hope this helps

Dan Rogers
Microsoft Corporation
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