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: #400698 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12
• Original language: English
• 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

Good for solid understanding
Together with Professional C# Web Services, also from Wrox, these books will give you a solid base to really understand Web Services and Remoting. The basics are quite simple but you will also learn some useful advanced topics. I've always liked the Wrox style of writing, I think it's easy to read and follow the code examples. The only criticism is the number of authors. Some smaller parts are repeated and the style is not always consistent.

This book is for EXPERIENCED programmers
I read the book several times. I did some of the examples. The examples worked with no changes necessary. On the [web page], the book has an errata list, which is pretty small. The source code for C# and VB are on the wrox website. This book is for EXPERIENCED programmers. Don't even try to read it if you have no prior knowledge of web services.

The book has an excellent introduction to ASP.NET for web services. It probably is worth just going over the first two chapters to get a flavor of web services. Word of caution, I downloaded the VB samples, and they were a bit buggy. If you are a C# developer, the code in the book was fine. The VB code was not...

Top-Down approach is very useful
I recommend this book because I find it easy to read. The top down approach helped me understand the subject matter. Introduction chapters were very helpful to get me started and the details came in later chapters. I had no issues with C# code examples.

I recommend this book because I find it easy to read. The top down approach helped me understand the subject matter. Introduction chapters were very helpful to get me started and the details came in later chapters. I had no issues with C# code examples.

This book is well organized, I liked the introduction chapters that start you at the 10,000 foot level and then the later chapters dug deep down into details. This Top-Down approach was very useful to me to understand the material.

The first few chapters discuss the major components of Web Services to give the reader a good understanding of the architecture involved. The major components discussed were organized in conceptual layers such as the Transport, the Data encoding (XML and XML Schema), SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. Also some history and other technologies were compared. Examples of Web Services were given immediately to show how easy it is to write Web Services in Note Pad and better yet in Visual Studio .NET.

Chapter 3 explained how to consume a Web Service once it is built.

Starting with chapter 4 the conceptual layers were explained in greater details

WSDL and all the sections involved, Wire Formats like SOAP and Custom Techniques.

Finally Web Services Discovery (UDDI) was discussed in chapter 7. All well done.

More advanced subjects were discussed starting with chapter 8 like Design techniques, Asynchronous programming, State management, Transactions, Data Caching, Authentication and SOAP Security. Exposing Data and Serialization etc. Well done also.

I liked reading the case studies using BizTalk Server, Passport-Style Authentication Services, and Distributed Processing, you can find them at the end of the book. I was more interested in the Passport-Style Authentication and Distributed Processing. I did not have time for any examples on the case studies.

Over all this book is very good, and I strongly recommend it. This book explained the material well using the right approach. I found few errors here and there but I have not found a book that is perfect. Most of the examples that I had time to try worked well. This book is NOT only for intermediate and advanced users because if you are a beginner to Web Services and like to be challenged then this book is also for you. ---Reviewed by Gus Aawar