Create a simple XML Web service using ASP.NET This article also demonstrates how to build a client for the XML Web service by using either Visual Basic.

On the client side, the data is presented with the Office PivotTable and Chart components. This step-by-step article describes how to use ASP.NET to build a simple XML Web service that retrieves data from the Microsoft Access sample Northwind database and returns the data as XML to a client when the client calls a method of the service. How to use the Office Web Components with XML data generated by an XML Web service created using ASP.NET