Ebook: .NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation

Praise for .NET Web Services

Keith Ballinger has been Mr. Web Services
at Microsoft for as long as there were Web services. Anyone doing
work on the Microsoft Web Services platform would do themselves a
favor by reading this book, as Keiths insights are
unique.

Bob
Beauchemin, DevelopMentor

This book is a very good introduction to Web services,
providing enough specific information for a person to fully
understand the principles and implementation issues of Web services
. . . Ballinger clearly outlines the fundamental architectural
topics that any organization looking to implement XML Web services
should consider.

Colin
Bowern, Consultant, Microsoft Corporation

This book provides information about all principal
components of Webservices: transport protocol, interface definition
and services discovery mechanisms, security and messaging
infrastructure, as well as underlying technologies (XML, TCP/IP,
HTTP). Description of each subject is comprehensive and complete;
examples provide good illustration from the content.

Max
Loukianov, Solomio Corp.

.NET Web Services is the authoritative guide to
designing and architecting better Web services using Microsoft
technologies. Written by Keith Ballinger, a Program Manager for XML
Web Services at Microsoft, this book explains what Web services
are, why they exist, and how they work in .NET. Readers will gain a
thorough understanding of the technologies that allows them to take
full advantage of .NET.

The book opens with an introduction to Web services and Web
services standards. It then explores .NET technologies and examines
how the .NET Framework gives developers the tools they need to
build Web service applications. The core of the book focuses on the
key specifications that make up the Web services architecture, from
HTTP to SOAP to WS-Security. .NET Web Services
concludes with the author's expert advice on architecting and
designing Web service applications.

Topics covered include:

• The features and pitfalls of Web services

• Web services standards

• Creating Web Services with ASP.NET

• Creating Web service clients

• XML serialization with .NET

• Extending Web services

• Transport protocols for Web services

• XML and XML Schemas

• SOAP

• Describing Web services

• Discovering Web services

• Messaging with Web services

• Securing Web services

• Advanced messaging

Best practices are illustrated throughout with full working
examples as well as code samples using C# and ASP.NET Web services.
A companion Web site at www.keithba.net includes all sample code from the
book.

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developers of the Microsoft .NET technologies, including the
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