Sams Teach Yourself .NET XML Web Services in 24 Hours

Sams Teach yourself .NET XML Web Services in 24 Hours takes a straightforward approach to teaching the hows and whys of XML Web Services and builds upon the skills learned in each successive chapter. The intent is to give readers a competitive edge in creating new and innovative software solutions before the competition has even heard of them. It includes coverage of XML, XSD, WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, and DISCO and ASP.NET. The examples in the book will be given in both C# and VB.NET

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. CORE CONCEPTS.

Hour 1. What Are XML Web Services and How Do They Fit into the .NET Framework?
Hour 2. An XML Primer.
Hour 3. Defining XML Web Service Operations with WSDL.
Hour 4. Remote Procedure Calls with SOAP.
Hour 5. Finding XML Web Services with UDDI and DISCO.

II. BUILDING AN XML WEB SERVICE.

Hour 6. Visual Studios Environment or Server Setup.
Hour 7. Building the Four Function Calculator.
Hour 8. Windows Client for the Four Function Calculator.
Hour 9. Web Clients for the Four Function Calculator.

III. DATA IN XML WEB SERVICE.

Hour 10. Data Types in XML Web Services.
Hour 11. Working with Data in XML Web Services.
Hour 12. Passing DataSets from XML Web Services.
Hour 13. Consuming DataSets in XML Web Services.
Hour 14. XML in Web Services.

IV. WEB SERVICES IN-DEPTH.

Hour 15. Using ASP.NET Intrinsics.
Hour 16. The XML Web Services Namespace/Web Method.
Hour 17. XML Web Service Events (Global.ASA).
Hour 18. Security and the SOAP Toolkit.
Hour 19. Asynchronous Operations.
Hour 20. Debugging Your XML Web Services.
Hour 21. Error Handling in XML Web Services.
Hour 22. Publishing an XML Web Service.

V. THE QUOTE SERVER (USING WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED)

Hour 23. Building the Quote Server XML Web Service.
Hour 24. Quote Server Clients.
Index.