Product Description
Teach yourself how to write and deploy XML Web services for Microsoft .NET-one step at a time. XML Web services can vastly simplify application integration and interoperability, but developing them requires an understanding of many different programming techniques and technologies. This step-by-step tutorial delivers expert, task-based instruction designed to help you apply what you already know about C#, Microsoft Visual Basic, and other object-oriented programming (OOP) languages to XML Web services development-at the pace that best suits you. Topics include XML Web services architecture; writing, testing, and debugging Web services; and consuming Web services asynchronously through clients or with HTTP; and advanced topics such as managing Web service state, security, SOAP, and .NET remoting. The book features skill-building lessons and practice exercises, with plenty of examples in both the C# and Visual Basic .NET languages.
I found it to be a very good intro for beginners in XML Web Services like myself. Highly recomended.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book and Programming Visual Basic .NET by Francesco Balena have answered virtually all of my questions about building production distributed database applications using XML Web services. If you’re interested, you can download a sample of my working code at http://www.opointe.com
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a good book for everyone to learn XML web service! It is very straightforward and easy to understand!When reading this book and following the instructions step by step, I learn a lot of concepts and understand the basic ideas of XML web service! After reading this book, you can read the advanced books about XML service! I really recommend this book to all of you!
Rating: 5 / 5
Many of the practice examples do not work with Visual Studio 2008.
Much has changed since the publishing of this book. And if you are keeping up with the new technology of Microsoft this book is outdated. Published in 2002, the new paradigm is WCF.
I would like to see and own a book that explains the new WCF, with database examples to AdventureWorks, Microsofts practice database you can download and work examples.
That is my humble two cents review.
Thank you,
-robert
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve recently readed this book while travelling to and from work, and my goal was to learn more about Web Services, and precisely those that gave XML responses, so this book was a good candidate.
The book contains what it says: all about web services in .NET. This is good, because you can always have it as a reference book whenever developing web services. It covers SOAP, HTTP POST and GET protocols, ASMX web services and WSDL-created proxy classes, UDDI and DISCO files, state management, caching, session and state management, and even asynchronous examples.
The only “bad” thing about the book that I’ve found is the “STEP BY STEP” sub-header… At least in this book it means “complete examples in every chapter”.
The book is 373 pages long (apart from the appendixes), at least one third of that being code examples. And of that 100+ pages of code, the majority is trivial basic WS code that seeing one is ok, twice maybe, but the third time you just skip to the bold part that marks the “important” code.
The authors could have avoided full samples from later chapters, instead only showing the relevant code snippets.
But anyway, as I started saying it is a recommended book to learn (or get deep into) .NET web services development.
Rating: 4 / 5