Professional ASP.Net Web Serv Ices

by Chris Miller, Andreas Eide, Bill Sempf, et al.

.NET is Microsoft's platform for Web Services. 'Web Services' describes a new model for business on the Web. Until now, the web has provided for the browsing of linked documents, downloading of files,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861005458
• ISBN13: 9781861005458
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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...

Teaches how to develop real-world Web Services using ASP.NET

This is by far one of the best books on implementig Web Services in ASP .NET and the reason is simple: it addresses and provides examples on how to deal with inherent Web Services issues such as security and state management. In most other web services books I've read the chapters about security (if any) simply say it is an issue and talk about general concepts about security. This book is an exception to that. The examples on this book will teach you: * How to use SOAP headers for authentication.* How to map Windows accounts to impersonate users.* How to enable session management for persisting state across different Web service methods.Perhaps one of the big reasons I also liked the book is because the examples where in C#, whereas most other ASP .NET books use VB.NET by default. It'd be nice to see a second edition of this book covering examples on how to use the WS-Security standard using the recently released Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK).

The best book

The best book that I've ever seen for Web Services. This book covers all about Web Services and the advanced topics such as Caching and Security are the highlight of this book. Highly recommended!

Excellent Book on Web Services

Best book on web services. It covers all I need to learn about Web services from the ground up. One of the best parts of the book is advanced topics such as Caching and Security. That where the book shines very much.

Comprehensive coverage

The first few chapters teach you the basics, most of which I knew already, but it is the later chapters which are really great. The chapter on SOAP security (a subject about which I confess I knew very little) taught me everything I am ever likely to need or want to know about that subject. There's also loads of great examples to get you going. To sum up - it's great!