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Learn Internet Applications using VB.NET
VB.NET has made it possible for whole new categories of Internet applications (such as Web services implemented with UDDI and SOAP) to become available. Most of these are programmed using XML. Learn how to build these new applications here!
The Google Web Service API
A great way to learn a new technology is to study a successful implementation first. The Gooble search engine is rising above the churning froth of technology and they have an open web service that anybody can access. Here's an introduction to the Google web service. But after you read this, be sure to write your own by reading the next article as well.
Writing Your Own Google API Program
After reading about the Google web service at About Visual Basic, it's time to write your own. Here's the article that tells you how to do it.
Quo Vadis, Web Services?
Web Services is the latest "new thing" in programming and programmers who have been around the block at least once have usually been burned by sudden twists and turns of the software biz. Will Web Services burn you too? Find out here ...