Professional C# Web Services: Building .NET Web Services with ASP.NET and .NET Remoting [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Andrew Krowczyk (Author), Zach Greenvoss (Author), Christian Nagel (Author), Ashish Banerjee (Author), Thiru Thangarathinam (Author), Aravind Corera (Author), Chris Peiris (Author), Brad Maiani (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2001

Web services are perhaps the most important feature of .NET development. They take componentization to a new level by allowing method calls to be made over the Internet or over an intranet using standard protocols such as HTTP and SOAP. This means that the calling application needs to know nothing about the internal implementation of the service - a web service built in C# on the .NET platform will (in theory) be indistinguishable from one built on Linux using Java.

The .NET Framework provides two ways to build web services - ASP.NET and .NET Remoting. Unlike most books on web services, this book covers both of these technologies in depth. .NET Remoting web services require a little extra effort to build, but they offer us greater flexibility. They allow us to use different encoding and channels, and they can be hosted in any application, not just IIS.

This book covers:

This book covers building web services and web service clients with both ASP.NET and .NET Remoting. We also look at the generic protocols used by web services - SOAP, WSDL, and we discuss discovering web services using Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). Case studies illustrate the integration of web services into an application, and demonstrate how to create a custom channel sink to apply cryptography to a Remoting web service.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book is for anyone who is interested in building web services using the tools supplied with the .NET Framework, and wants to look at both of these technologies. If you are only interested in ASP.NET web services, you should consider buying Professional ASP.NET Web Services instead. Prior knowledge of C# and the .NET Framework is assumed.

About the Author

Zach Greenvoss, MCSD is a Senior Consultant with Magenic Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Certified consulting firm in Northern California. He specializes in middle tier architecture and implementation, utilizing various technologies including COM+, MSMQ, BizTalk, and XML. He can be reached at [e-mail].

Andrew Krowczyk is a Senior Software Developer for Geneer, a Microsoft Gold Partner company specializing in accelerated custom software development. He is a MCSD with an Undergraduate Computer Science degree, and is currently wrapping up his Master's degree. You can contact Andrew via e-mail at [e-mail].

Christian Nagel is working as a trainer and consultant for Global Knowledge, the largest independent information technology training provider. Having worked with PDP 11, VMS, and Unix platforms, he looks back to more than 15 years of experience in the field of software development.A 10+-year-old software company having development centres in India, UK and USA.

After teaching music theory for several years at Duke and UNC Chapel Hill, Brad Maiani was faced with a question: move again for another academic gig, or attempt to actually make a living with his lifelong hobby (programming, of course)? The choice was obvious, and he's glad he made it. You can contact Brad at [e-mail].

Thiru Thangarathinam works as a Consultant at Spherion Technology Architects, an international technology consulting company, in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an MCSD. During the last two years, he has been developing Distributed N-Tier architecture solutions for various companies using latest technologies such as VB,ASP,XML,XSL,COM+and SQL Server. He can be reached via e-mail at [e-mail].

Aravind Corera is a software engineer who lives and works in Chennai, India. He currently works for Identitech, Inc., a software solutions company headquartered in Melbourne, Florida. He has been working on Microsoft based technologies for the past 6 years, particularly in designing and developing systems based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM).

Product Details

• Paperback: 550 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press; 1st edition (December 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861004397
• ISBN-13: 978-1861004390
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,687,716 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christian Nagel, Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP, is associate of thinktecture and owner of CN innovation. He is a software architect and developer who offers training and consulting on how to develop Microsoft .NET solutions. He looks back on more than 25 years of software development experience. Christian started his computing career with PDP 11 and VAX/VMS systems, covering a variety of languages and platforms. Since the year 2000, when .NET was just a technology preview, he has been working with various .NET technologies to build numerous .NET solutions. With his profound knowledge of Microsoft technologies, he has written numerous .NET books, and is certified as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Professional Developer. Christian speaks at international conferences such as TechEd and Tech Days, and started INETA Europe to support .NET user groups. You can contact Christian via his web sites, www. cninnovation.com and www.thinktecture.com and follow his tweets on www.twitter.com/christiannagel.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tough subjects but don't give up!, October 13, 2002

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Stenberg, Jan Olof "jan_stenberg" (Umeå, Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional C# Web Services: Building .NET Web Services with ASP.NET and .NET Remoting (Paperback)

To really understand Web Services and Remoting requires hard work, but if you take the time and don't give up, this book will give you a solid understanding of the subjects, especially Remoting. Not only the basics but also advanced techniques. I've read the book a couple of times, together with Professional ASP.NET Web Services, and written the code examples, so now I'm doing my own projects with both techniques and feeling confident with what I'm doing. But it takes time!

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book could have been something special..., January 10, 2002

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T. Cook "tomc" (Vancouver, WA) - See all my reviews
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...but it comes up short. WROX (WROT is too strong, but WRUSH or WROUGH is more appropriate) seems to *rush* books to press while they are in *rough* draft form. The editing in this book is far better than in "Professional C#", but the content is now sorely lacking. The book purports to cover both ASP.NET and .NET remoting web services. I do not know enough about remoting to either praise or condemn their coverage, but I do know that their coverage of (the relatively simple) ASP.NET web services is lacking. Example: they do not discuss the terrific things that can be done with the SoapHeader class/attribute and the overriding of SoapExtensions. (If they do discuss it, I can't find it. I initially thought the index was poorly done, but now I think the index is spartan because the content is thin.) Microsoft's (new) course on building web services with C# is a far better reference than this book; somebody will capture this content in a book soon enough. I'd try to wait for a second edition or another non-rushed non-rough tome to come out.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the book that I used most, November 5, 2002

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Paulo E. Reichert "preichert" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional C# Web Services: Building .NET Web Services with ASP.NET and .NET Remoting (Paperback)

If you want to get the understanding of .NET Remoting, this is the right book.

XML Web Services with ASP .NET are quite easy to build, so, this book doesn't looses too much time on it.

If you want to learn only ASP .NET web services then you can try other titles that covers only this.