What's the difference between web service and web application?

[KC Eric]

Hi all, in VS.net 2003, in the New Project page, I saw ASP.Net Web Service
and ASP.Net Web Application.

What's their difference?

When should I use which one?

Thanks!

KC

[Vishnu-Chivukula]

Hi Eric,

Web service is a programmable unit of software that can be accessed over the
Internet and used remotely. It can be used internally by a single application
or exposed externally over the Internet for use by multiple applications.
Web Services are services with standard interfaces that just expose a
behavior.

Where as Web Applications can be defined as all the Web pages (.aspx, .jsp,
and HTML files), handlers, modules, executable code, and other files (such as
images and configuration files) that can be invoked from a Web server.

Sounds complex....

Web Applications resides in a web server like IIS. Web Application is a
collection of all the web pages. These are the pages which will be displayed
when a request is made by the browser.

HTH,

Need any help, do post a msg back...
happy Coding

"KC Eric" wrote:

Hi all, in VS.net 2003, in the New Project page, I saw ASP.Net Web Service
and ASP.Net Web Application.

What's their difference?

When should I use which one?

Thanks!

KC

[Juan T. Llibre]

KC,

go to : http://www.asp.net/tutorials/quickstart.aspx
and read up on the differences.

Use the menu on the left to navigate.
These two sections will be of use to you :
ASP.NET Web Applications

XML Web services created using ASP.NET

Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
http://asp.net.do/foros/
Foros de ASP.NET en Español
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Hi all, in VS.net 2003, in the New Project page, I saw ASP.Net Web Service
and ASP.Net Web Application.

What's their difference?

When should I use which one?

Thanks!

KC

[KC Eric]

Thanks both! Thanks so much!

KC