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Webservice runs in the context of IIS and ASP.NET runtime. So you can apply all the security methodologies which you do for ASP.NET i.e. windows , passport and forms.My 50 .NET Interview questions
I need to build a simple webservice to get data in and out of a HR System over the Internet. I am using IIS and ASP.Net with .Net 2.0.