Visual Basic.NET XML Web Services Developer's Guide [Paperback]

Roger Jennings (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0072223693 | ISBN-13: 978-0072223699 | Edition: 1st

-- Covers migration to Visual Basic. NET for developers looking to take advantage of expanded Web service capabilities
-- Loaded with hands-on examples and source code to help professionals build Web service solutions
-- Complete overview of related open standards and protocols that encompass Web services, including XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
-- Gives developers and corporations the tools they need to cut development cycles, become more efficient communicators, and establish new business channels

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Your Professional Resource for Developing XML Web Services

Take XML Web services beyond commonplace uses to the realm of production-grade, data-intensive enterprise application integration and Web commerce projects. Use SOAP and WSDL standards and the .NET Framework to open your client applications and server components to XML Web services located anywhere on the Internet. Leverage Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET to generate new Web services that deliver syndicated content, financial reports, and business partner interoperation. As you progress through Visual Basic .NET XML Web Services Developer's Guide, you'll discover the easiest and fastest methods for creating and deploying enterprise-level XML Web services with Visual Basic .NET.

• Discover how XML Web services help you develop distributed applications faster
• Understand XML Web service architecture and core industry standards
• Convert VB6 components to XML Web services with the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit
• Port VB6 component code to ASP.NET Web Services with the Upgrade Wizard
• Compare performance of complex XML Web services with COM and DCOM counterparts
• Move between rpc/encoded and document/literal SOAP message formats
• Authenticate and authorize users with SOAP headers
• Validate SOAP request and response documents and their datatypes with XSD schemas
• Use the Office XP Web Service Toolkit to SOAP-enable productivity applications
• Connect to, and interact with, live production XML Web services at www.oakleaf.ws
• Download more than 90 megabytes of Visual Basic .NET code examples and back-end databases from www.osborne.com

About the Author

Roger Jennings (Northern California) has more than 25 years of computer-related experience, beginning with his work on the Wang 700 desktop calculator/computer. He's a principal of OakLeaf Systems, a Northern California software consulting firm. Roger is the author of many computer books and is also a frequent contributor to Visual Studio Magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 495 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1st edition (May 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072223693
• ISBN-13: 978-0072223699
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,578,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm the principal consultant of OakLeaf Systems, a Windows Azure MVP and the author of 30+ books on Microsoft operating systems (Windows NT and Windows 2000 Server), Windows Azure, databases (SQL Server, SQL Azure and Access), .NET data access, Web services and InfoPath 2003. The books have more than 1.25 million English copies in print and have been translated into 20+ languages.

My latest books are "Microsoft Access 2010 In Depth" (12th edition) for Que Publishing and "Cloud Computing with the Microsoft Azure Services Platform" for Wiley/Wrox.

I'm also the curator of the OakLeaf Systems (http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com) and Access In Depth (http://acccessindepth.blogspot.com) blogs, a contributing editor of 1105 Media's "Visual Studio Magazine" and a frequent contributor to their "Redmond Developer News" newsletter.

OakLeaf's Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Web service won the charter Microsoft .NET Best award for horizontal XML Web service solutions.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive Web Services Guide, July 29, 2002

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Kofi Nimoh (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visual Basic.NET XML Web Services Developer's Guide (Paperback)

A pretty thorough book covering Web Services technologies in some detail, the title is a bit misleading (not in a bad way though), as the author covers both VB6.0 Web Services technology and VB.Net implementation of the same, (with good reason). This strategy should ease the transition for the typical VB6.0 developer to VB.NET Web services, and also facilitate better understanding of SOAP over HTTP.
This guy's writing style is pretty unique among Computer Manuals in general. He has really researched his stuff, and the book is peppered with several references to tools, articles, and online resources of which many can be put to very good use.
The one and only gripe I have is that there are no simple example applications in this reference. The author acknowledges this in the book, but explains that no B2B or B2C application is simple either, (primarily what XML Web Services are for).
I can see that this approach will appeal to some and not to others, but on the whole I have to admit that his web-service examples are more complete and real-worldy than the typical "weather samples" and "add two numbers" implementations which are promoted in many circles as "Web Service examples". The author is a regular columnist for many of the Fawcette group publications such as Visual Studio magazine and I'd advice any purchaser of this book to keep in touch with Roger's writing on XML Web Services in these magazines as there are regular updates on some of the information presented in this book, which Roger continues to write about.