.NET Web Services: Architecture and
Implementation with .NET - Paperback

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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