No more lamenting woes, back to real code. This was the core of my SDN presentation . The web is an omnipresent infrastructure which your software can use to communicate. The way to communicate are XML webservices over HTTP. Any attempt to do it different often ends in a firewall as soon as it is deployed...

By default a web project in VS is hosted by Cassini, the included web-server. Nevertheless I prefer IIS for my projects. For several reasons: Security. A site running in IIS is running under the asp.net account which is quite a stricter security context than the one Cassini is running in. This can lead...