Way, way back in the early days of .NET and the abortive Windows Longhorn project, one of the underlying technologies was a set of standards that built on the nascent web services model: WS-* and SOAP ...

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The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...