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Web Services with ASP.NET 2.0 in C#

I was trying to develop a web service that would serves request for converting document to PDF format. This development involves the following task: 1. Ability to receive request in the form of binary data. 2. Ability to send out email. I don't have any exposure to web services apart from Maxis ECPA development based on SOAP. As usual, the first thing that I would do is to buy a book that could teach me the basic of web service development. Of this, I bought Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 with C#, published by Wrox. This book only cover a little bit of web service, but it's just enough for me to learn the fundamental of the web service building block. As I learned how to create the web service using Visual Studio 2005, together with some example from MSDN website, I was managed to create the web service. There wasn't much coding need to be done, as the ASP.NET 2.0 framework has made it easier to develop web appplication. Note about the development that I made: 1. Sending binar