Building XML Web Services for the Microsoft .Net Platform [With CDROM]

I found this book extremely useful in learning not just the .NET Web Services stack, but also web services fundamentals. I especially like the fact that an electronic version of the book is included on the CD.

This book may seem very disperse in terms of the topics covered regarding Web Services, but I found that to be valuable given that it does not provide the typical basic examples. Having said that I believe this is a good book for intermediate and advanced .NET developers with already proficient on Web Services.These are some comments regarding specific sections of the book:* A third of the book is spent explainning web service basics, SOAP, WSDL and XML schema which is something not very valuable for proficient web service developers, but good for beginners.* I found the chapter and samples on XML Serialization good to understand the custom XML serialization mechanisms available in .NET.* The .NET remoting chapter is a good introduction to Remoting, though I haven't run the sample code.* The UDDI chapter provides sample code on how to use the MS UDDI SDK to work with tModel documents. This is the first .NET web services book I read that actualy shows how to access UDDI programatically.* The chapter on security has a good overview of security mechanisms available for Web Services, but has poor examples (WS-Security is only covered in words, as it wasn't supported when the book was published).* Other valuable info: table of mapping between XSD and .NET types; examples on how to use SOAP headers.

not many example programs, it's more of a general information book on web services and what's available with dotnet. It covers a lot of ground and seemed like a lot of subjects covered in 1 chapter could have entire books written about them.I did notice a few of errors in the example code snippits and examples but nothing major.Recommended

Web services in simple words write software as a service. This book starts with what is XML webservice and why we need it. And then how to create a web servies, how to consume it. Second chapter has two very simple easy to understand examples. Remoting and security are the best topics in this book. This book also explains SOAP, WSDL, UDDI (protocols for the web services). PS: This book expects readers to know C#. All the examples are in C#.Dislikes: No word about caching. Too expensive. Title should say using C#.