Question

I have a website (ASP.NET) and some winforms(.Net 2.0) for a project (written in C#). I use the webservice (IIS6) for task that both require like sending email inside the business.

I think Webservice is nice but I would like from your experience what should and what should not be in a webservice?

Answer 1

In My Opinion:

Web services should be reserved for code that

1. You either can’t or don’t want to distribute; or,
2. code that needs to seriously scale up.

One example is custom business logic that multiple applications need access to.

Code you don’t want to put into web services include:

1. code that is performance based;
2. code that applies only to the application in question.