Product Description

This book will show you how to create high-quality Web Services using ASP.NET. It describes the standards that are core to the Web Services architecture and examines how these standards are integrated into ASP.NET. The processes involved in building and consuming Web Services are discussed along with in-depth code examples. The book concludes with three case studies, each examining a different application of Web Services, and presenting a complete solution.

This book covers:

Building and consuming Web Services in ASP.NET

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

Discovering Web Services with UDDI

Exposing data sources through Web Services

Performance techniques

Securing Web Services

Transactional Web Services

.NET My Services (Hailstorm)

The code in this book is presented in C#. Full Visual Basic .NET versions of all code samples and case studies are available along with C# downloads on the Wrox website.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1396059 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 700 pages

From the Publisher
This book is for intermediate or experienced ASP.NET programmers who want to take advantage of the opportunities that are presented by Web Services standards.

We offer a full support service to readers of this book. This includes community discussion on p2p.the Wrox web site. Authors and editors that worked on Professional ASP.NET Web Services will help you to get the most from the book.

About the Author
Andreas Eide has been working as a developer and software architect for the past eight years. He is an MCSD, MCT, and is also MSDN Regional Director and a regular speaker at seminars and conferences. You can contact Andreas at andreas.eide@objectware.no

Christopher L.

Currently, Bill Sempf is a Senior Consultant at Paros Business Partners, and owner of Products Of Innovative New Technology. He has written several articles on COM, COM+ and .Net technologies for TechRepublic, Internet.com and Inside Web Development Journal. Bill can be reached at bill@sempf.net.

Srinivasa Sivakumar is a software consultant, developer, and writer. He specializes in Web and Mobile technologies using Microsoft solutions. He currently works in Chicago for TransTech, Inc. He also writes technical articles for ASPToday.com, CSharpToday.com, .NET Developer, etc.

Mike Batongbacal is a technology consultant developing n-tiered systems using Microsoft technologies such as Visual Basic, ASP, COM+, SQL Server and, most recently, the .NET platform. Mike is currently the E-Business Practice Lead for Magenic Technologies.

Matthew Reynolds is an in-house author for Wrox Press writing about and working with virtually all aspects of Microsoft .NET. He's also a regular contributor to Wrox's ASPToday and C#Today, and Web Services Architect. He can be reached on matthewr@wrox.com

Brian Loesgen is a Chief Software Architect at Stellcom Inc., a leader in advanced enterprise and mobile solutions. Brian utilizes his XML expertise to translate new, technologies into real-world value. Brian is a frequent speaker at major technical conferences worldwide. He can be reached at bloesgen@msn.com.

Robert Eisenberg is currently an independent consultant specializing in Web Services. In 1999 he was the CEO and cofounder of an eCommerce consulting firm that was acquired by Framfab Inc. He has written for DevX and spoken on .NET at Microsoft and at local user groups.

Brandon Bohling is a software engineer for Intel Corporation in Phoenix, Arizona. He has been developing ASP-based web sites since its creation. He has fully embraced the .NET technologies and is devoted to spreading his knowledge.

Russ Basiura is an independent consultant and founder of RJB Technical Consulting, Inc.Russ specializes in the design and development of integration solutions that enable business partners to exchange confidential information. Russ can be contacted at russ@rjbtech.com.

Customer Reviews

Complete Reference using ASP.NET
Web Services is rather a very broad subject. You can fall endlessly in both the technical aspect of it as well as practical.

For a lot of developers, Web Services are simply a new way of accessing functions through a more standard way, while for others, they are very interested in how it is actually being done behind.

This book will answer, as best as it's possible in one book, to both these worlds. You will learn how to manage state & authentication with Web Services, when & how to use Web Services, as well as some practical case-studies.

The mention of ASP.NET in the title doesn't mean that there are ASP.NET tutorials itself (which happened in the past), it's only to state that this book is intended for ASP.NET developers that wishes to learn about Web Services.

My opinion: one of the most poorly written books I've seen
I have waded through this book & am now up to chapter 4.

Without making a judgement on the *technical* content of the book, the actual text encountered so far is, in my opinion, verbose, poorly structured and meanders all over the place, making it a bit of a slog to get through.

Specifically, the information could be presented more crisply in far fewer words without continual "as referred to earlier"/"as I will be describing later in this section/chapter".

It all looks like notes by the chapter author to himself as he was writing it out so as not to forget to add a bit on a particular subject in a (chronlogically) later paragraph.

Given Wrox's habit of throwing a dozen or so authors to be one of the first to turn out a book whatever the latest bleeding edge MS technology is (with the pre-requisite 700 pages/2.5" of shelf space), it may be that the later chapters by other authors turn out better - this remains to be seen.

Please don't rely on my opinion - go check the book out for yourself.