Get the in-depth reference and guidance you need to create and consume high-performance, cross-platform Web solutions in the Microsoft .NET environment. This exhaustive resource cuts to the heart of developing XML Web Services and their clients-offering expert insights on the relevant standards, .NET classes, and key design and development techniques. You'll learn to exploit core technologies such as XML, UDDI, and SOAP, as well as emerging specifications and tools, so that you can create effective and efficient Web Services. You also get complete code in C# for all the book's examples on the Web, ready to adapt to your own applications.

Discover how to:
Use SOAP to communicate with Web Services and WSDL to define them
Know when to use DISCO and UDDI for Web services discovery
Write XML schemas to specify the content and context of messages sent to and from clients
Create Web methods to manage application state, asynchronous calls, and file versioning
Build custom clients for Web Service consumption
Use Microsoft ADO.NET to expose data from databases, XML files, and servers
Extend the Web Services framework with HTTP modules and SOAP extensions
Use authentication, authorization, SSL connections, cryptography, WS-Security, and other security techniques
Employ Web Service Enhancements (WSE) for attachments, routing, referral, and other advanced functions
Explore Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) and other emerging standards