Sockets To Web services

[Ankit.Hegde]

Hi, I am new to .Net, so am not sure of the complexity involved. Task - Migrating from Socket programming to Web services. Currently I have 2 applications that are connected to each other using sockets. But there is a need to migrate to Web services. There is no change in the functionality wise. Only to reduce the dependencies as the Web service may cater to other applications on the other side. Current - Application 1 Application Extra(future) | / | Sockets / | / Application 2 Must try to acheive - Application 1 Application Extra(future) | / Web Service | Application 2 I would like to know what approach should I take. For example I know about sockets being used to send and receive messages. Basically a function (for an application) in which I open sockets and send and receive data. So while creating web services how do i replace the socket functions etc. I am not sure if its a very difficult or easy question, but could the advice to learn and proceed . Thanks