Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Web Services

What is Microsoft .NET?

Briefly, Microsoft .NET supports the following features:

As described by Microsoft, .NET is a robust platform for developing the next generation of applications.
It is built using industry standards, such as XML and SOAP.
The .NET platform supports many languages, including:
Visual Basic .NET
Visual C# .NET
The .NET API, including data type support, is the same for all languages.
.NET provides a single development environment, Visual Studio® .NET, to work with all its supported languages.
.NET supports the following SOAP formats that are also supported by Progress 4GL Web services:
RPC/Encoded
Document/Literal
Note: .NET does not support RPC/Literal.