Programming WCF Services (Programming)

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Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, Programming WCF Services is the authoritative introduction to Microsoft's new, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Relentlessly practical, the book delivers insight, not documentation, to teach developers what they need to know to build the next generation of SOAs.

After explaining the advantages of service-orientation for application design and teaching the basics of how to develop SOAs using WCF, the book shows how you can take advantage of built-in features such as service hosting, instance management, asynchronous calls, synchronization, reliability, transaction management, disconnected queued calls and security to build best in class applications. Programming WCF Services focuses on the rationale behind particular design decisions, often shedding light on poorly-documented and little-understood aspects of SOA development. Developers and architects will learn not only the "how" of WCF programming, but also relevant design guidelines, best practices, and pitfalls. Original techniques and utilities provided by the author throughout the book go well beyond anything that can be found in conventional sources.

Based on experience and insight gained while taking part in the strategic design of WCF and working with the team that implemented it, Programming WCF Services provides experienced working professionals with the definitive work on WCF. Not only will this book make you a WCF expert, it will make you a better software engineer. It's the Rosetta Stone of WCF.

Customer Reviews:

A Must Have!.......2007-10-01

Excellent book, it covers every thing you need to know about WCF. Have in mid that this book is not for begginers

Great book on a big subject.......2007-09-05

Arguably, WCF is the most revolutionary development in current software trends. It may change completely technological landscape developers live and work in since the appearance of .NET platform.
Juval Lowy (once again!) has written an extraordinary book. Seemingly he has an absolute and complete knowledge on the subject.
What strikes me even more, is how carefull and lovingly Juval leads the reader through the forest of technical details to the deep and solid understanding of both underlying technology and practical implementation of WCF.
If after hours of reading you suddenly feel lost, all you have to do is go back half a page and you are on track again.
I just wish I had such a wonderfull teacher every time I have to learn something new.

Easy to understand.......2007-09-03

Juval writes like a real educator. Where other books fails to explain in simple terms, Juval Löwy is very easy to understand. His book has a wonderful layout, which makes it easy to find what your are looking for.
Thank Juval.

A "Must-Have" Book for Programming WCF.......2007-08-30

If you are going to use WCF in your enterprise applications, then this is the book you want to buy. We are converting our .NET 1.1 web services over to WCF and find this book to be absolutely essential. This is the stuff you can't glean from Internet posts. A truly irreplaceable knowledge builder and reference tool.

Learn WCF the right way instead of piecmealing sub-standard techniques from bloggers........2007-08-28

I'm part of a middleware group and we are migrating to WCF. This book was just technical enough, concise and it has been very helpful in several cases. It's gotten me started and helped fill in the details where I needed it. Probably my favorite part, was the astute and very well reasoned description of Service-Orientation in Appendix A.

You're not going to waste your time reading fluff like so many other books.

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Deffinitely a beginner book
Wretched
Great coursebook, but heavy for the beginner
A huge over written mass of book
Very confusing and technical

C# How to Program
Harvey M. Deitel , Paul J. Dietel , Jeffrey A. Listfield , Tem R. Nieto , Cheryl H. Yaeger , and Marina Zlatkina
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Deffinitely a beginner book.......2007-03-29

This book is solidly aimed at beginners. It almost as if it's written for a reasonably intelligent person who somehow hasn't had much computer experience. These "How to Program" books in their previous editions for C and C++ were always held up as a sort of gold standard for learning a programming language. That is not the case with this C# edition.

The book is verbose to a fault. I've read several intro C# books now, and this is easily the worst one. For all it's pages, How to Program, offers so little to the reader. Yes it covers all the basic information you need to know, but it's so verbose you can't help but feel like the author is wasting your time as you read it.

To give you examples, most books of this sort assume the reader knows what a computer and the internet are, and at least can name a few programming languages. Other books will give you maybe a few pages of introduction to the history of C# and .NET and make comparisons to other common languages. How to Program starts with a 35 page chapter explaining computers, how they work, the internet, and a history of programming leading up to C#.

From there, every chapter begins with a smattering of historical quotes that have the most tenuous relationship to the material being presented in the chapter. Every basic feature is then covered in agonizing detail in a writing style capable of putting Bam Margera into a coma.

Your money and time would be much better spent on any of the following 5 books, Programing C# (O'reilly), Learning C# 2005 (O'reilly), Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005: The Language, Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Step by Step, or C# for Dummies (I'm not kidding). Get any of those 5 books and Programming .NET Components (O'reilly), and you will learn much more in fewer pages and have a much greater grasp of working with C# and .NET.

Wretched.......2006-04-20

The text and examples in this book are too bogged-down in Visual Studio-isms for it to be a good introductory programming text, but the material is also too basic for experienced programmers.

The layout is terrible. Practically every third word is bolded, and the prose is interrupted by frequent "asides" that are inserted in the middle of paragraphs and stretch across entire pages. I found one page with *eight* asides on it! If the information was vital enough to be included, it should be integrated with the rest of the text; if it's truly optional/additional info, it should have been placed in the margins where it wouldn't interrupt the flow of the text upon a first reading. I find this book nearly impossible to actually read because of these very poor design decisions.

The few code examples I've tried to run from the book do not compile as printed. I suspect they were copied-and-pasted out of Visual Studio with vital parts omitted. This is an inexcusable oversight for a book aimed at beginners.

There is a second edition of this book out now. I would seriously recommend casting a critical eye on it, after all the problems with the first edition.

I have a few Deitel books that I like a great deal, so this book was a real letdown in every way. Please avoid if you value your sanity.

Great coursebook, but heavy for the beginner.......2005-12-22

Like a few others said, this book is very verbose at 1500 pages, but it's overkill for most people. I like it because it's got lots of coverage on many areas, but the examples are too big and too many and take from showing the meaty theory around each chapters objectives. I still give it 4 stars because others who have looked it over told me it's not too bad

A huge over written mass of book.......2005-12-19

I've been reading technical books for 25 years and this book was recommended to me by someone else - what a let down. First, way too verbose on every subject. I have never seen a book with so much miscellaneous and distracting stuff crammed into one page. The book is 1500 pages of which half don't need to be there. This might work in a class room, but a huge mistake for individual learning. They call there code samples live code, but I call it filling the pages. It's better to explain concepts with simple examples first, then build on them, and this book fails miserably. Many times, only a 2-3 paragraphs explains something, then it goes on for 10 pages dissecting samples. Then briefly concludes before whisking to the next long sample. It's quite the jumble. Also, open any page in this book and you will see 20 bold highlighting of keywords that is very distracting. Also, the pages are thin and have a glare that I find annoying.

The authors appear very knowledge and I'm sure they mean well, but the book is a labor of over analyzing. It's need to be merged with a "dummies" approach to make it more balanced.

I found the subject of basic classes poorly covered in only one brief chapter, and I still haven't found how to make arrays of classes. Also, the index seems to be weak.

However, the breadth of the book is nice if you need to study a few esoteric areas such at TCP/IP, and I have to admit that the chapter on data structures and collections seems to be superb. I would only buy the book for a few of the chapters, but if your trying to learn from the ground up, you will doubt your confidence to learn programming.

Very confusing and technical.......2005-09-16

This book may have some examples that work but the whole context is utterly confusing. I have it because it's what I'm using for my OOP programming class and I wish they didn't use it! It gets me so frustrated just going through it that I was asking the teacher if I should drop programming altogether. In reading another post, I see that a University teacher wrote that they didn't like this book as the students start blaming themselves for not understanding the concepts when it's really the books fault. I was guilty of feeling that way but in talking with other classmates and in reading these reviews from BEGINNERS, this book is definitely not worth it! If you are an experienced C++ or Java programmer you will probably understand the book pretty well as there are experienced people posting their thoughts but for the beginner it's a no no! I'm in a beginner class and it's way too confusing and frustrating!

The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

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If you do AD programming, you need this book!
well done!
Great book!
Comments on [...] Deveopers Guide Book
A Must Have Title

The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Joe Kaplan , and Ryan Dunn
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If you do AD programming, you need this book!.......2007-08-13

This book is everything I was hoping it would be. I'm working on a project where I need to get computer accounts from AD (TENS of THOUSANDS of them) and move, delete, enable, disable and set account expiration dates. Everything I need to know is in this book. The AD paged search, useraccount properties, etc. Some of the routines I was able to use as-is (the VB versions from their web site download). These guys do a great job of explaining all the stuff I couldn't find anywhere else. Highly reccomended!

well done!.......2007-08-09

This book is great for anyone who does AD programming with .NET it covers everything from the basics to some pretty advanced stuff and even some undocumented stuff.. a must have for AD Programemrs!

Great book!.......2007-07-31

If you are or may be in the future, doing directory services programming then this book is a must have. It also suffices a quick reference as it has code sprinkled around so that you can get up to speed quickly.

If anything, it is sort of lacking on other LDAP directories. It does have the history of LDAP and does show where the differences are between AD and the others.

If your primary focus is other directories, this may not be the end all book for you, but should still suffice as a reference.

If AD is your main focus, buy this now, you won't be disappointed.

Comments on [...] Deveopers Guide Book.......2007-01-23

This is a very good book for[...] developers who wants to program against Active Directory. There are some good examples in this book that can be very handy. Other than examples in pieces, there is not a project or Web Site codes that a beginner could use.

A Must Have Title.......2007-01-12

Anyone who wants to include access to the Active Directory / ADAM via the ADSI providers (LDAP, WinNT, IIS, etc) and are finding themselves lost or overwhelmed while sorting thru the .NET environment on their own, need this book. Regardless of your previous experience in scripting or programming with ADSI (including none), this title provides the information you need in a relatively compact manner that brings you up to speed and gets you working productively before you even finish.

The book starts off with a quick introduction to ADSI and the .NET framework: light on history, heavy on solidifying the readers understanding of how the .NET framework's Directory Services got where it is. The middle of the book concentrates on explaining the core set of objects needed to bind, read, write, search, etc., spending the right amount of time on each topic with clear language and to-the-point examples. You could actually put the book down at that point with a clear understanding and the ability to perform the needed tasks. The last section of the book takes your skills even further, starting with showing you how to extend the schema, work with security, and manage namespaces. With those sections complete comes complete walk-thrus on practical applications you can develop as well as sections on hints, tips and troubleshooting. Some potential VB readers may be put off by the fact that all the code examples are in C#. As the examples are typically short and dealing with objects, non C# developers shouldn't have any issue translating the code; if all else fails, the author has posted complete VB translations for download.

This title proves itself to be not only an efficient learning resource, but also serves as a reference for Directory Services that you will use again and again. The authors have created a book that truly aims at demystifying the process and demonstrating to the reader that the technology is not as convoluted as other ADSI books make it out to be. Even though at the time of this review there are few books dedicated to .NET Directory Services available, this is a must have and will continue to prove its value for quite some time.

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Great Second VB Book
Jesse Liberty Fails to Update the Errata
Not a complete transition to VB.Net
VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Learn Visual Basic 2005

Programming Visual Basic 2005
Jesse Liberty
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This newest programming guide by bestselling author Jesse Liberty isn't your typical Visual Basic book. It's not a primer on the language, and it won't dull your brain with arguments hyping .NET either. Its goal, rather, is to make you immediately productive, creating Windows and Web applications using Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.

Written for VB6 and novice programmers, the book shows how Visual Basic 2005 can be used to rapidly build modern Windows and web applications.

What makes this book different is what's not included. There's no introduction to Visual Basic, no explanation of how it fits into the .NET world. Why waste time reading about something you'll learn for yourself as soon as you start creating applications? You won't even write a "Hello World" program. With Programming Visual Basic 2005 you'll get started building something meaningful, right away.

The book is divided into three parts--Building Windows Applications, Building Web Applications, and Programming with Visual Basic--each of which could be a book on its own. The author shares his thorough understanding of the subject matter through lucid explanations and intelligently designed lessons that guide you to increasing levels of expertise. By the time you've finished the book, you'll know how to program both Windows and web applications with VB 2005.

The support for this book extends beyond its covers. Jesse offers a FAQ, Errata, complete source code and a link to a free private support discussion center on his web site: LibertyAssociates.com - just click on books.

Jesse Liberty, Microsoft .NET MVP, is the best-selling author of O'Reilly Media's Programming ASP.NET and over a dozen other books on web and object-oriented programming. Jesse is a frequent contributor to many industry publications and websites, and has spoken at numerous industry events. He is a former Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T and Vice President for technology development at CitiBank.

Jesse Liberty's books have successfully guided thousands of programmers into the world of .NET programming, and Programming Visual Basic 2005 is no exception.

Customer Reviews:

Great Second VB Book.......2006-09-26

I have been through many VB books including expensive college texts. I immediately found this to be the best one. I picked it up at a Borders (oops...) because I was sick of ordering books online and not liking them when I finally got them in the mail. After I read the first chapter in the book store, I didn't want to wait to get started so I paid the $40.

I found that something simple like naming conventions or form design can ruin a potentially great book. Jesse Liberty uses the standard naming convention (txtName, btnSelect, etc.) and is not nearly as strict with form design as most books I have been through.

I recommend this as a second book because, though chapter 15 and 16 are superb in describing the basics, the complete beginner may be better off with a "For Dummies" book or something like that.

Some SQL knowledge also makes the book go down easier.

Jesse Liberty Fails to Update the Errata.......2006-06-27

After spending many hours trying to figure why the sample code didn't work, I found the answer buried on Jesse Liberty's message board. A fellow reader points out an error on Jan 21 and as of June 26 Jesse has yet to update his errata. Most tech books have a decent size errata and that is to be expected, but for an author to fail in his responsibility at the cost of many collective hours by his readers is extremely inconsiderate. This book is in my trash can at the moment.

Not a complete transition to VB.Net.......2006-06-07

I absolutely love Jesse's books and articles. However, this book does not have a page dedicated to ADO.Net nor does Jesse talk about the debugging methods of VS 2005.

I understand writing a book is not easy, but I feel these are two critical components of .Net development

VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!.......2006-05-21

Are you a Visual Basic programmer? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Jesse Liberty, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that makes you productive immediately to create Windows and Web applications using Visual Basic and its associated tools.

Liberty, begins by describing how to respond to events to build interactive applications. Then, the author shows you how to use drag-and-drop controls to create that connectivity, how to query with parameters, and how to build master/detail pages. He continues with a review of built-in browser controls. Next, the author discusses custom controls. Then he shows you how to use GDI+ and other techniques to draw dynamic applications. He also shows you how to detect mouse events and respond to them. Then, he shows you how to integrate legacy Com controls in a managed situation. The author continues by showing you how to create complex and sophisticated Windows applications. Next, he shows you the library of controls created for you to greatly simplify these tasks. Then, the author walks you through the controls that makes mastering pages and navigation a very easy task. He continues by showing you how to update the database and manage multiuser applications. Next, the author discusses personalization. Then, he shows you how to create web services and also how to create applications that use web services. He also takes you into some of the nooks and crannies of this tool. Next, the author provides a review of the visual basic language in detail. Then, he shows you how to use the new generic collections to create type-safe stacks, queues, and dictionaries. Finally, the author provides a slightly more formal overview of the visual basic language.

The goal of this most excellent book is to make you immediately productive, creating Windows and Web applications using Visual Basic and its associated tools. Thus, by creating applications, you will learn Visual Basic as it has evolved for .NET!

Learn Visual Basic 2005.......2006-05-01

What's with the negative reviews on amazon for this book?!? Plain and simple, Jesse Liberty is one of the top technical writers out there in the field today and I have YET to read a book by him that I haven't liked. Who cares if there are a few typos in a book, the main things that I am concerned about are if the writing is good, the layout is easy to follow with images and graphics put in at the right places, and the flow is tight and concise. The author achieves all of these goals in this book -- quite simply, if you use Visual Basic 2005 and you want to become a better programmer and desire to learn from a true expert in the field, pick up 'Programming Visual Basic 2005' today... you won't regret it.

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting

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Very useful, highly recommended!
Informative as well as suprisingly useful for 70-310
Good Microsoft N-tier Architecture Text
Excelent Book for Planning a System
Great survey of distributed apps

Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting
Matthew MacDonald
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Graduate from programming desktop applications to designing, developing, and implementing distributed applications using best practices for the Microsoft .NET Framework. This book takes developers beyond the basics with .NET to show how to use .NET techno

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Very useful, highly recommended!.......2005-05-30

This book is very useful and well written!

#1. It covers most of important things in architecture design in enterprise development.
#2. It is easy to read. Easy to understand. To the point and a efficient learning tool.
#3. It is very accurate. With picky eyes, I have not found any inaccuracies so far. (Technology advancement will make some comments out-of-date, but that would be another story).
#4. You do not have to use web service or remoting for this book to be greatly helpful.
#5. It appears that the author knows every corner of distributed system design to a great depth.

Last comment/advice to Microsoft - Microsoft should invest more on this kind of quality books if it wants drag more IT projects on .Net and to defeat the competing platforms.

I recommend this book to IT professionals. 5 stars of course.

Informative as well as suprisingly useful for 70-310.......2004-11-30

Having recently passed 70-310, I found this book to be exceedingly helpful in cementing certain .NET distributed concepts for the exam-- meanwhile, related MCAD/MCSD study guides like those from Sybex and Microsoft (?!) came up short...

Chapters 1-9 of this book provided clear explanations and working examples for 70% of the content I encountered on my recent exam, while topics covered equally well in Chapters 11-15 accounted for the remaining 30%. Even Windows Services can be found about mid-way through Chapter 7.

If you are keen on moving into distributed .NET programming and/or preparing for 70-310 (like me), I would highly recommend this book. I would not have earned my MCAD credential without it...

Good Microsoft N-tier Architecture Text.......2004-11-27

Solid information for those interested in building N-tier architectures in a Microsoft world. Great stuff on how to build business objects -- I haven't found much on Microsoft object caching except in this book. Sadly, MS hasn't gone as deep as JBoss, BroadVision or similar products but this book helps fill the gap.

Excelent Book for Planning a System.......2004-08-26

This book won't tell you every single thing about .Net Remoting, Web Services, Com+ or Message Queueing, but since it gives you a lot of info on all those techs and a lot of others it's the perfect book for people who plan on creating Distributed Applications.
I have read it full now and it helped me a LOT in my work. I work as an application developer at a bank and I'm supposed to do the company workflow system. It has to be very scalable so I needed to build a distributed architecture. This book helped me building this architecture and getting it approved by the board.

Great Book!

Great survey of distributed apps.......2004-07-05

The author has a real gift for explaining the details of the diverse technologies ms offers for creating distributed apps. An excellent book.

MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C# .NET and the .NET Framework

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Building Real Life Systems with C# and .NET
Good Study Resource
Good book
Good Reference But Not Necessary for the Exam
Excellent Training Material for 70-320 Exam

MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C# .NET and the .NET Framework
Amit Kalani , and Priti Kalani
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This certification exam measures the ability to develop and implement XML Web Services and server components using Visual C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework. This exam, released in September 2002, counts as a core credit toward the new MCAD (Microsoft Certified Application Developer) certification as well as a core credit toward the new MCSD .NET track. Readers preparing for this exam find our Training Guide series to be the most successful self-study tool in the market. This book is their one-stop shop because of its teaching methodology, the accompanying PrepLogic testing software, and superior Web site support at quepublishing.com.

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Building Real Life Systems with C# and .NET.......2007-03-12

This book is designed for the intermediate level developer who wants to learn how to develop web services using Microsoft's C# in the .NET framework, and for those who want to pass the 70-320 examination. This is not a 'cram for the test' type book but instead gives you the information you need to do the job, and incidentally pass the test. It is not a complete book on C# or .NET or even the Visual Studio IDE software. It is on how to use these to build real life systems.

Tied in with this, of course is information on passing the test. There is information about the test itself, and practice examinations (one printed in the book, one on the CD included).

If you are just interested in passing the test, there is a shorter book in the Exam Cram2 series. It's written by the same author but is significantly smaller as it is test only oriented.

Good Study Resource.......2007-03-08

This is the 3rd Amit Kalani book that I have purchased and used to prepare for Microsoft certification exams. Very easy to understand and follow. Good exercises.

Good book.......2007-03-07

I read through the book and passed the exam. It gets the job done and covers the material.

Good Reference But Not Necessary for the Exam.......2007-01-19

I originally bought this book because I used another book by this author and publisher to pass the 70-315 exam. I only made it through the first half before stopping. I just found the material too dry and theoretical. Much of it consisted of memorizing classes and their properties and methods. I ordered the Transcenders with the study guide and finished my preparation with that instead and passed my exam. I have used this book as a reference for my daily work, and found it to be fairly good for that purpose. It's just not well suited for the exam.

Excellent Training Material for 70-320 Exam.......2006-11-08

I recently took and passed the 70-320 exam using this material as my primary reference. I commend the authors for their coverage of the test areas. The book is very well written with lots of example code to step through. I've done several MS Certifications and this is among the best training material I have used. A couple areas I found the book light on were Soap Headers and Leasing and Sponsorship. These topics are well covered on MSDN. Be sure to understand everything in the Appendix sections especially ADO. This book should serve well for both training and reference.

Building Web Services and .NET Applications

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Good starter guide..! Nothing more
Good Overview Book
Where is the Web Service content?
Muy buen libro para arquitectos
A Must for Architects

Building Web Services and .NET Applications
Andrew Lader
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Written by real-world developers, this professional resource is the definitive guide to building and deploying .NET applications and Web services. You'll learn to create applications with XML, XSLT, and SOAP; write .NET classes; and develop interfaces using the examples and practical advice contained in this authoritative resource.

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Good starter guide..! Nothing more.......2004-07-12

This book intoduces more on XML stuff than to a .NET developer. It starts explaining .NET architecture after XML. I have read a lot of xml stuff before, so that probably helps to new developer. The authors approach on explaining things is just great for a new .NET developer.

I used this book like a quick start for .NET Web services. Beside, I found this book lack lot of architectural considerations for real world deployments and so on.

Good Overview Book.......2004-01-11

Authors have done a good job of giving a good overview of XML, XSLT, SOAP and WebServices. Creating and understanding a schema is well done. SOAP and WebServices are clearly explained. This book could have been just on XML, XSLT, SOAP and WebServices.

If you know some XML and XML schema, little or no SOAP and WebService you can have this book to quickly get an overview.

Where is the Web Service content?.......2003-11-09

I just coughed up $50 plus $17 overnight shipping thinking that I was buying a good book on application develpment with a focus on Web Services. When I recieved the book, I was very dissappointed. Chapter 2: What is XML....Chapter 3: What is a schema.. Chapter 5: What is XSLT? on and on..... It is possible that this book may be well-written, but I feel duped into thinking it was a book on Web Services. The title is completely misleading!!!! I suspect that having "Building Web Services" in the front of the title will gain more sales and more frustrated customers at the same time.

It is simply wrong to title a book "Building Web Services and .NET applications" if only chapter 8 and chapter 14 of the 17 chapter book have anything directly to do with Web Services. The title for this book was apparently written by the marketing dept.

To be honest, I have not read the book, I have just skimmed through it. However, I am not inclined to read the "What is XML" chapter or "What is XSLT" chapter. I was not under the impression that I bought a book with so many filler chapters. I will be returning it today.

Muy buen libro para arquitectos.......2003-03-10

Es injusto que alguien le pueda dar 1 estrella a este libro, porque es un texto muy bueno. Definitivamente está dirigido a un público diferente de aquellos que buscan cómo aprender algo en 10 minutos o 24 horas, no es ese tipo de literatura.

Es un libro para alguien que quiere entender cómo y porqué deben hacerse las cosas en los ambientes distribuidos y porque XML viene a ser un elemento fundamental en este tipo de arquitecturas. Obviamente al centrarse en estas explicaciones conceptuales da poco espacio para documentar código fuente(se puede bajar), que es lo que determinado público anda buscando.

Si Ud. esta interesado en entender la filosofia de los ambientes distribuidos y el papel que XML y los Web Service juegan, este libro es para Ud.

A Must for Architects.......2003-02-21

I've just read this book. I don't like to write any review (my English is still poor) and i wasn't goint to, but saw previous
reviewer. That gay is from people who love a book such as "c++ for 10 minute". This book is the most valuable for people who would like to know how to build distributed applications across inet boundaries, how to convert (forsee minimum changes at the begining of project) a desktop to a distributed application. The book makes you think, but not just cut-copy code. The examples are the most practicals I've ever seen. Actually they are patterns
of real applications. There is only 7-th (SOAP) chapter where I fell (I couldn't build example). The most important chapters are 8 (Web Services) and 16 (Windows Form), you will learn how to reuse code using combination user and custom controls, then transform desktop to a distributed application, after then deploy it without client administration, finally autors show you how to join . Net client with java servlets.

Microsoft .NET XML Web Services Step by Step

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Teach yourself how to write and deploy XML Web services for Microsoft .NET - one step at a time. XML Web services can vastly simplify application integration and interoperability, but developing them requires an understanding of many different programming

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Good for beginners.......2007-06-14

The book can be read in a day and half and at the end you'll really know something useful.

The topics covered are well thought out, though I thought the credit card example was pretty tedious and after a while, so I just started skipping it to read what was on topic.

My background is C++ and I came into the C# and XML Web Services with no experience in either; by the end of the book I was comfortable authenticating users, enabling sessions, keeping things in cache and hitting the database.

The book is a fine read and does a good getting you up to speed, one of the best I've read in a while; 4 stars (instead of 5) for using that credit card example, you're either going to love the example or hate it, however I wouldn't skip this book because of it.

Great for beginners.......2006-02-06

As the suffix title suggests, this book _does_not_rush_ things; very obviously catered for novice developers, it slowly oozes out information a step at a time. The authors exhibit their virtuous patience by going into great lengths to introduce the technology concepts that support XML web services, complete with comprehensive diagrams. These base explanations facilitate a firmer foundational understanding that no developer of XML web services should do without.

Accompanying this conceptual theory are practical-driven chapters, each demonstrating a facet of web service development in the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. The instructions are so minutely explicit and clear, virtually taking the reader by the hand (so much so might annoy more seasoned developers), that building the examples listed are exceedingly easy tasks. And I do not mean that in a blind copy-and-paste manner; the baby steps are enriched with proper explanations to ensure readers have sufficient knowledge of why such a piece of code exists somewhere. Even the asynchronous and multi-threading chapter, a topic that most developers tend not to have a good grip on, is written with amazing clarity. The book's 16 chapters are incredibly easy to read and digest, possessing little (if not none) of that confusing wordy fluff that delivers nothing; this one goes straight to the point, short and sweet.

Sometimes however, short can also mean _truncated_. There are places where it simply stops and closes shop on the chapter when more demonstrations are expected. Take for example the fifth chapter, where it is supposed to show using web services with HTTP requests along (without SOAP). It explains alot about HTTP-GET and HTTP-POST, but only walks through a HTTP-GET practical. I felt omitting HTTP-POST would not fair well in the light of educating novices.

While on the flow of novice practices, it also strangely presents a mix of good and legacy (not necessarily bad) examples. The use of the StringBuilder class to append strings together is a good one, but continuing to code with "" and string.ToLower() show an affinity to past platforms. string.Empty and CaseInsensitiveComparer are respectively preferred choices in the .NET Framework practice.

Almost needless to state, even with the "Advanced" part of the book, one should not be expecting any serious deep topics or design patterns revolving web services here. But I couldn't help but feel it waste for such fantastic writing style not delivering something more that is usually arcane in other books. Who should be blamed for desiring more out of a delicious meal?

Great book to get developers started and up to speed with XML web services. But those looking to become _masters_ should read something else.

Good: Crystal clear explanations; easy following; great beginner material
Bad: Little to offer beyond the beginner; odd omissions; few legacy practices

I give this book an A+.......2005-10-04

I found it to be a very good intro for beginners in XML Web Services like myself. Highly recomended.

Excellent tutorial for beginners........2005-10-01

I am half way through the book and I like it. It is a good tutorial that will hold your hand and help you taking your first steps on the planet WebServices. The authors selected an interesting and practical example subject, validating credit card numbers, so you will not need a lot of coffee to keep you awake.

The examples are so simple, so if you are an experienced OO programmer, keep in mind that the goal was introducing the subject not implementing the code in the most elegant way.

On the other hand, the authors followed a naming convention from hell. I am not just talking about casing but also the logical selection of class names. For example, In chapter 6 the authors were explaining the subject of sending objects and returning objects from/to web service. So they built a class and named it "ValidationObject". I don't want to sound like an OO lawyer here but the class is not an object; Objects are instances of the class.

Anyway, I guess a name like "CreditCard" would've made much more sense, after all it is a credit card we are passing around. Variables were named like this x_object, o_card_type.

Personally, I couldn't continue without building a names map. I just recorded each name and to which object it was given on a piece of paper.

A word of advice; this is not the type of book you want to come back for a second read hoping that it will give you more understanding of the subject. So make sure you will take notes and summarize the important facts of each chapter.

Excellent hands on training.......2005-08-29

This book provides excellent hands on training in .NET Web Services development. Although the book is a bit out of date...

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This book is for EXPERIENCED programmers
Top-Down approach is very useful

Professional ASP.NET Web Services
Andreas Eide , Chris Miller , Bill Sempf , Srinivasa Sivakumar , Mike Batongbacal , Matthew Reynolds , Mike Clark , Brian Loesgen , Robert Eisenberg , Brandon Bohling , Russ Basiura , and Don Lee
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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.

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Help - i cannot find the code for this book too.......2005-09-12

Hi, i have purchased this book long ago.
However i am unable too, to download the code for this book as it is not available on the wrox web site. I have also tried the Apress and Wiley Publishing web sites but they too do not have the code for this book. Can somebody pls. mail me the code of this book if they have it?

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help - cannot find code for this book.......2005-05-27

Hello,I have just purchased this book. however i am unable to download the code for this book as it is not available on the wrox web site. I have also tried the Apress and wiely web sites but they too do not have the code for this book.Can somebody pls. mail me the code of this book if they have it?

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Good for solid understanding.......2002-10-14

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.......2002-10-05

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.......2002-10-05

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.

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Fully updated for version 1.1 of the .NET Framework, .NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition is an objective, concise, no-nonsense overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework for developing web applications and services. Written for intermediate to advanced VB, C/C++, Java, and Delphi developers, .NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition is also useful to system architects and leaders who are assessing tools for future projects. .NET Framework Essentials touches all the bases--from the Common Language Run-Time (CLR) and key class libraries to the specialized packages for ASP.NET, Windows Forms, XML Web Services, and data access (ADO.NET). The authors survey each major .NET language, including VB.NET, C#, J#, and Managed C++, as well as MSIL, clearing away the noise and hype, and presenting a clear, practical look at the underlying technologies. .NET Framework Essentials also provides a handy reference to the most commonly used features of .NET Framework. Written by two veteran web applications developers, .NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition is one of the most complete, concise, and ultimately useful books to describe the breadth of technology represented by .NET. Compact and free of fluff or proprietary hype, .NET Framework Essentials is an outstanding value for experienced programmers and architects who need to get up to speed quickly.

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True to it's purpose.......2006-05-17

I went to my local bookstore to get a functional understanding of ".NET". My previous readings had been hit and miss and provided little understanding of the new platform.

This book provided that understanding. The writeups on the CLR, assemblies, garbage collection, net components, web services, etc. were skeletal but quite good. I came away with some understanding of what .NET is, why it was developed and why I believe it should leapfrog Java in the web development world.

It wasn't an easy read since it provided good understanding with little detail, and takes some thought; but again, it serves it's purpose well.

.NET Framework Essentials (3rd ED).......2005-12-20

As the title says, this book gives the essentials of the .NET framework. It is not an exhaustive treatment, rather, it touches on the main features of .NET. The book assumes that the reader is fluent in object-oriented and component-based programming. Overall, the book was fairly well written with the main features of the .NET framework being clearly explained. The book has no distractive "fluff" in it, so one can easily dive into learning about .NET. The authors give an overview of .NET, and then present a description of the common language runtime (CLR). The common programming model and working with .NET components follow. XML data and web services are clearly explained with a lot of code snippets being given. The book concludes with chapters on ASP, Windows Forms, and mobile devices. The appendices are useful, as sometime acronyms aren't defined in the main text, but are explained in the appendix.

Overall, I found the book well written. The coverage of topics is actually fairly decent. The authors have done a good job of focusing on the essential aspects of .NET. If you're looking for a book that gives gives an overview of the heart of .NET, this is a good book. If you're looking for an exhaustive reference, than you'll probably want something else.

To Software Developers: Don't Bother.......2004-04-20

IMHO, OReilly tends to have the best technology books (I own many) but this book isn't one of them. This book is lightweight even as an introduction. This book is certainly fine for managers, senior architects, and business types, but if you plan to design and write software I recommend Jeff Prosise's "Programming Microsoft .NET" and Jeffrey Richter's "Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming", though a bit dated, both cover the .NET framework essentials and then some.

Excellent.......2003-11-06

Very well written primer on the .Net framework, internal workings of the CLR and language fundamentals. Great book.

OK but others are better.......2003-08-26

It is a fairly shallow overview of the .NET framework. The author tries to cover a lot of ground but that means each topic worth a chapter in another topical book gets a few pages here at most.

The book could come in handy if you just want a quick refresher before you go out for a .NET-related job interview .. ;) but not for serious learning.

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