Development and Calibration of a Model of a University Building

In previous versions of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio .NET 2003), you use the ASP.NET application model to you create ASMX XML Web Services that expose functionalities to clients who want to use them. ASMX Web Services are still supported in Visual Studio 2008 for backward compatibility, but going forward Microsoft recommends that developers use WCF when building services. To compare WCF and ASMX Web Services, let's first use Visual Studio 2008 to create a new ASP.NET Web Service Application project. Name the project StocksWS. Populate the default Service1.asmx.cs file as follows: using System; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Services; using System.Web.Services.Protocols; using System.Xml.Linq; namespace StocksWS {  [WebService(Namespace =" [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]  [ToolboxItem(false)]  public class Service1 : System.Web.Services.WebService {   [WebMethod]   public float GetStockPrice(string symbol) {    switch (symbol) {    case"MSFT":     return 29.91f;    case "AAPL":     return 180.21f;    case "YHOO":     return 23.93f;    default:     return 0;    }   }  } } This Web Service contains a web method to let users query the price of a stock ...»