Exploring the Header in the WSE 2.0 SoapEnvelope Class
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This article, the second of two parts, continues our exploration of the SoapEnvelope class in WSE2.0 by examining some of its properties and methods. In particular, we focus on manipulating the SoapHeader.
Soap
SOAP is well known as an extremely lightweight protocol requiring fewer resources from the sender or recipient of a communication. Since it is XML-based, any system capable of parsing XML should be capable of communicating using this protocol. The basic unit of communication in SOAP is a SOAP Message. WSE2.0 provides a large number of classes in the Microsoft.Web.Services2 name space that make the communication possible with flexible lightweight web services. A partial list of related classes in this name space include the following:
Soap
Soap.AttributeName
Soap.ElementNames
SoapContext
SoapEnvelope
SoapFault
SoapFormatException
SoapInputFilter
SoapInputFilterCollection
SoapOutputFilter
SoapOutputFilterCollection
SoapWebRequest
SoapWebResponse
SOAP Message
A SOAP message consists of a Header, a Body and any other independent elements housed in what is called a SOAP Envelope.
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