.NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation

One of the core pieces of technology in the .NET Framework is XML Serialization. This feature set allows you to manipulate XML in a class-friendly...

XML Serialization is a misnomer: The term XML Mapping would be more accurate. Why? Simply put, XML Serialization is not designed to serialize any CLR...

Underneath the covers, XML Serialization is using the stream-based parsers in System.Xml. As you've probably noticed in the samples thus far, you use streams to...

As you may have noticed in earlier examples, the use of attributes on your class and its members can affect the XML into which it...

The preceding section demonstrated how to use various attributes to control the XML to be serialized. Often, you don't need to create these classes yourself,...

As mentioned earlier, .NET Web services use the XmlSerializer as the engine for sending and receiving SOAP messages. Therefore, when creating Web services and Web...

XML Serialization is the premiere way to manipulate XML with the .NET Framework. You can use it instead of a DOM or stream-based XML parser...