.NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation

With the introduction of the .NET Framework, Microsoft has revolutionized how Web development takes place. ASP.NET enables developers to author Web pages and applications that...

Two major features in .NET are the ability to create XML Web Services Servers and XML Web Services Clients. There are also several related APIs...

Let's get up and running by creating a sample XML Web service. Then, we'll take a step back and discuss the infrastructure in more detail,...

XML Web Services built with ASP.NET are implemented as ASP.NET handlers. ASP.NET has two very powerful extension mechanisms. In addition to Web pages and Web...

The Web Service Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based syntax for describing XML Web services. Other chapters in this book deal extensively with WSDL, but...

If you are familiar with .NET, then you may also be familiar with the asynchronous programming pattern that it uses. This pattern provides an easy...

Like any programming protocol or language, SOAP defines how error handling should occur; and like other Web protocols, SOAP assumes that errors will happen. The...

The .NET Framework gives you an easy and powerful way to build Web services. You don't even need Visual Studio .NET to build them! This...