Creating AJAX-Enabled Web services in .NET Although modern browsers such as Internet Explorer, FireFox and Safari support many different technologies ranging from DOM to CSS to JavaScript, XML parsing ...

Visual Studio.Net is the primary competitor to a host of Java-based tools from companies such as Sun, BEA Systems and IBM to help developers build Web services using Java and XML.

In my last article, I discussed how Web services can play a critical role in AJAX applications and the role that JSON plays in the message exchange process. In a nutshell, Web services provide a way ...