Lesson 1: The Need for Web Services

• Evolution of Distributed Applications
• Problems with Traditional Distributed Applications
• Introducing Web Services
• The Web Technology Stack and .NET
• The .NET Alternatives to Web Services
• Common Web Service Scenarios

Lesson 2: Web Service Architectures

• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Web Service Architectures and Service-Oriented Architecture
• Roles in a Web Service Architecture
• The Web Services Programming Model

Lesson 3: The Underlying Technologies of Web Services

• HTTP Fundamentals
• XML Essentials
• SOAP Fundamentals

Lesson 4: Consuming Web Services

• WSDL Documents
• Web Service Discovery
• Web Service Proxies
• Implementing a Web Service Consumer Using Visual Studio .NET

Lesson 5: Implementing a Simple Web Service  

• Creating a Web Service Project
• Implementing Web Service Methods
• Managing State in an ASP.NET Web Service
• Debugging Web Services

Lesson 6: Publishing and Deploying Web Services

• Overview of UDDI
• Publishing a Web Service
• Finding a Web Service
• Publishing a Web Service on an Intranet
• Configuring a Web Service

Lesson 7: Securing Web Services

• Overview of Security 
• Built-In Authentication 
• Custom Authentication: SOAP Headers
• Authorization: Role-Based Security
• Authorization: Code Access Security
• Encryption

Lesson 8: Designing Web Services

• Datatype Constraints 
• Scalability
• Performance
• Reliability
• Versioning
• ISP and ASP Deployment
• Architectural Elements

Lesson 9:Implementing a Nonstandard Web Service

• HTML Screen Scraping Web Services
• Aggregating Web Services