
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.