Date: Oct. 10, 2000
Link: http://www.vbxml.com/xml/articles/dotnetintro/default.asp
Source Author or Organization: Andrew Laymann, John Montgomery, Microsoft Corporation, VBXML

This article is an overview of Microsoft's .NET Framework "web services engine," and its development strategy for building, deploying and running web services. Topics discussed include: the .NET Framework's component view of web services, its common runtime language and unified programming classes, the central role of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), security issues, and its relationship to Active Server Pages+, COM and COM+.