What are web references in context of the VS.NET projects?
A web reference represents a reference to the web service, at its simplest. Getting inside, a web reference is a reference to the proxy classes to call the web service. These proxy classes are implemented for you by the VS.NET IDE for you through the Web Service Description Language (wsdl) file downloaded from the web service URL. These proxy classes provide the same calling interface to the clients of web service. When you call methods on a proxy class, it in turn calls the methods of the web service over the internet through SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and returns the result back to your program.
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