This book is a comprehensive guide that walks the reader through developing and consuming XML Web Services using the .NET platform and ASP.NET. It begins with an overview of the .NET framework and an explanation of the process behind XML Web Services, and then quickly delves into building and consuming Web Services. Included will be discussions of proxies, classes, SOAP, Global XML Web Services Architecture, WSDL, UDDI, and Disco. The book will also cover the important issue of security and how to apply encryption and signing. This book is the reader's guide to advanced XML Web Services such as error and exception handling, configuration, and optimization.
ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
The Internet is quickly evolving from today's Web sites that just deliver user interface pages to browsers to a next generation of programmable Web sites that directly link organizations, applications, services, and devices with one another. These programmable Web sites become more than passively accessed sites - they become reusable, intelligent Web Services.
Simply put, Web Services are applications, or bits of programming functionality that communicate with clients and other applications over the Internet using SOAP (a kind of XML) and HTTP. Web Services are a key enabler of Microsoft's .NET Framework, and will change the way developers think about and create software in the future.
Web Services use standard protocols like XML, SOAP, WSDL and HTTP - they are not tied to a particular component technology or object calling convention. As a result, programs written in any language, using any component model, and running on any operating system, can access Web Services.
The .NET commonlanguage runtime provides built-in support for creating and exposing Web Services, using a programming abstraction that is consistent and familiar to both ASP.NET Web Forms developers and existing Visual Basic users.
ASP.NET for XML Web Services is both scalable and extensible, and embraces open Internet standards so that it can be accessed and consumed from any client or Internet-enabled device. This is the key to fulfilling Microsoft's mission "to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device."
ABOUT THE AUDIENCE
XML Web Services with ASP.NET is a must have for the any of the over six million Visual Studio users and one million ASP developers who are ready to begin building next generation applications with Microsoft's .NET Platform. Readers should have familiarity of ASP.NET and the .NET platform.

• Pt. I The .NET Framework
• Ch. 1 The .NET Foundation
• Ch. 2 The Technologies of .NET
• Pt. II The Basics of XML Web Services
• Ch. 3 Introduction to XML Web Services
• Ch. 4 Building a Simple XML Web Service
• Ch. 5 Consuming XML Web Services
• Pt. III Building XML Web Services
• Ch. 6 XML Web Services Architecture
• Ch. 7 The Visual Part of XML Web Services
• Ch. 8 State Management
• Ch. 9 Proxies
• Pt. IV XML Web Services Description and Discovery
• Ch. 10 WSDL
• Ch. 11 UDDI
• Ch. 12 Disco
• Pt. V All About SOAP
• Ch. 13 SOAP
• Ch. 14 Advanced SOAP
• Ch. 15 Global XML Web Services Architecture
• Pt. VI Security
• Ch. 16 General Security Issues
• Ch. 17 Advanced Security
• Pt. VII ADO.NET and XML Web Services
• Ch. 18 Working with ADO.NET
• Ch. 19 XML Web Services and ADO.NET
• Pt. VIII Advanced XML Web Services
• Ch. 20 Error and Exception Handling
• Ch. 21 Configuration and Optimization
• Ch. 22 Advanced Issues in XML Web Services
• Ch. 23 Screen Scraping
• Pt. IX .NET My Services and .NET Remoting
• Ch. 24 .NET My Services
• Ch. 25 .NET Remoting: An Alternative to XML Web Services
• Ch. 26 In Conclusion
• App. A XML Web Services Classes
• App. B XML Primer
• App. C XSD Primer
• App. D Bill Evjen's .NET Resources