MCAD/MCSD: Visual Basic .NET XML Web Services and Server Components Study Guide

In this chapter, you learned about deployment strategies and ways to secure your XML Web services. We covered the following topics:

• How to create a setup program to install an XML Web service

• How to publish an XML Web service by using a static discovery document

• How to Publish an XML Web service to a UDDI registry

• How to implement XML Web service authentication by using either Windows or ASP.NET authentication

• How to implement custom authentication by creating custom SOAP headers

• How to authorize access to resources by using File- and URL-based authorization

• How to encrypt SOAP messages by using SSL and HTTPS

• How to modify SOAP messages, like adding encryption, by creating custom SOAP extensions