Beginning Web Services for .NET

The focus of "Beginning Web Services for .NET" is to provide a solid foundation for understanding the architecture and development of Web services.

While many developers have read about (or experimented with) Web services, a large number of them do not understand how they can be leveraged to provide reusable and platform-neutral logic for applications.

The objective of this book is to provide readers with an end-to-end demonstration of the power that Web services can provide to applications by constructing a suite of Web services for managing online bookstores.

Beginning with an explanation of SOAP and XML-RPC (the precursors to Web services) the book walks developers through a careful tutorial on understanding how Web services operate.

It quickly moves on to descriptions of fundamental building blocks of Web services and some beginning examples.

As the book progresses, readers build upon information from previous chapters through the use of ongoing sample code, which culminates in the final chapters with a finished product.