>How good an understanding of general web services and security do you currently have? Because security is a very large field, perhaps you should narrow down what you are trying to do. Thomas Erl has written several good books on web services.
I have created Web Services, but they so far have been simple returning true or false or simple strings. I need to create more complex return types from database results. I also need to create web methods that accept data for inserting into the SQL database on the web server. Someone mentioned using XML but I am not sure I even know how to define that as a type.
I also need to secure the web service methods. In addition I have several websites that use security based on Mere Mortals. I have had trouble getting ASP security to secure folders in the web.config and still find a way to get access to the appopriate users. Therefore my knowledge in this area seems lacking.
The current application I need to be working on is two parts: A windows application that will collect data and send it to the web service in order to be inserted into a SQL database. Each collection of sent data will represent a single row of data.
The web service is part of a web application in which the web service primary job is to receive this data and insert it. I know how to do the inserting, but not really how to best receive this data. The rest of the web site will display based on the SQL server and is not a problem for me as it is pretty straight forward and I have done this many times.
I think this boils down to a single process with a method on the windows application that sends data and a web service that receives it. I just don't have enough experience in the web service arena to know how to do this properly. I need to learn.
Thank You
Tim
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>>Hi Craig,
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>>I have an ASPX web site and adding ASMX web services.
>>Tim
Timothy Bryan