You must be wondering, that in WCF era ASMX Web Service!  I wrote the first one 5 years ago and now trying to move them to WCF Service, but lot of companies have not even adopted the web service and some have only started adopting it recently, and now they realized that a new era has come.  I will discuss my experiments & experiences with WCF in later post. However, I would like to post a simple Customer ASMX Web Service and then consume it by a ASP.NET Web Page via Server Side and then Client Side using direct SOAP based XML through HTTP Post.  Later, I will create a similar WCF Service with exactly same methods and will access the data exactly same way.  Remember this is not a simple HelloWorld Example, this Web Service deals with primitive data type as well as complex one. How far you would like to dive deep, it will be up to you. Read More