Programming .NET Web Services

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Programming .NET Web Services

By Alex Ferrara, Matthew MacDonald
First Edition September 2002
Pages: 414
ISBN 10: 0-596-00250-5 | ISBN 13: 9780596002503
(Average of 5 Customer Reviews)

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This comprehensive tutorial teaches programmers the skills they need to develop XML web services hosted on the Microsoft .NET platform. Programming .NET Web Services also shows you how to consume these services on both Microsoft and non-Windows clients, and how to weave them into well-designed and scalable applications. For those interested in building industrial-strength web services, this book is full of practical information and good old-fashioned advice.
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Web services are poised to become a key technology for a wide range of Internet-enabled applications, spanning everything from straight B2B systems to mobile devices and proprietary in-house software. While there are several tools and platforms that can be used for building web services, developers are finding a powerful tool in Microsoft's .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Designed from scratch to support the development of web services, the .NET Framework simplifies the process--programmers find that tasks that took an hour using the SOAP Toolkit take just minutes. Programming .NET Web Services is a comprehensive tutorial that teaches you the skills needed to develop web services hosted on the .NET platform. Written for experienced programmers, this book takes you beyond the obvious functionality of ASP.NET or Visual Studio .NET to give you a solid foundation in the building blocks of web services, and leads you step-by-step through the process of creating your own. Beginning with a close look at the underlying technologies of web services, including the benefits and limitations, Programming .NET Web Services discusses the unique features of the .NET Framework that make creating web services easier, including the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and the namespaces used in .NET programming. Filled with numerous code examples using the C# language, the book leads you through some of the more challenging issues of web services development, including the use of proxies, marshalling of complex data types, state management, security, performance tuning and cross-platform implementation. The book also covers:

Creating and publishing your first web service
The UDDI project, tModels and what they mean for web service publishers Securing web service applications

Written for programmers who are familiar with the .NET Framework and interested in building industrial-strength web services, Programming .NET Web Services is full of practical information and good old-fashioned advice.

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First Edition: September 2002
ISBN: 0-596-00250-5
Pages: 414
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 5 Reviews)

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.NET Web Services, September 13 2006

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Submitted by Padam [Respond | View]

www.bostontechnical.com site doesn't work. Many of the book examples are based on this. I couldn't test some of the scenarios because the site doesn't work !!!

I did learn about .net services in c#. Personally if there would have been another book .net web services with c# I would suggest that to anyone over this book.

There are some good examples but I have to code every example manually to test since there is no code provided online or on a CD. (This is a first for me)

It would have been nice if the code was built upon from start to finish or related atleast.

Note to Author: The content of the book is good but you missed the above issues. Especially if you were going to reference www.bostontechnical.com. You should atleast make sure that site would be working until this book retires.

I couldn't find any other book out there that teaches .NET Web Services. Hmmm!!!

.NET Web Services very good!, September 30 2005

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Submitted by Eduardo Cesar Lunardelli [Respond | View]

Hi, you still did not see on webmethods, the classroom webclient, webservice, or it does not know web services?

It pulls what it is waiting, this book is the key to create applications asp.net and services of web. Really valley the penalty!

Programming .NET Web Services Review, August 18 2003

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Submitted by Kenneth Prat [Respond | View]

This is excellent and concise resource that addresses the key issues in detail. I like the fact that it doesn't get bogged down with a lot of example code. Just the facts Ma'am.

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Programming .NET Web Services Review, June 23 2003

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Submitted by yaz [Respond | View]

This book is waste of money for following reasons:

1. doesn't contain good examples

2. the matrials covered are very ambigous

3. The web page www.bostontechnical.com is not available

4. examples are not connected to one another

5. Not enough example posted or written for this book

You shall pull all this books of the shelves.lll

Programming .NET Web Services Review, February 04 2003

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Submitted by SP [Respond | View]

Examples are bad and they are not available on line.

There are references to www.bostontechical.com/webservices that

doesn't exist any more.

Media reviews

"I highly recommend this book...Overall an exceptional book covering the full range of topics as well as being specific to the most important topics."
--Don Collins, Sacramento Visual Studio User Group, January 2004
http://www.sacvsug.org/EditModule.aspx?tabid=52&mid=362&ItemID=11&itemindex=3

"If you want to mine a book for a robust understanding of web services and the constituent pieces of that technology (with all your examples in C#) then this book is for you...The information this book imparts should be standard knowledge for anyone that expects to write production quality web services."
--Kevin Riggs, Chattanooga Area .NET User Group, May 2003

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