Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting

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Graduate from programming desktop applications to designing, developing, and implementing distributed applications using best practices for the Microsoft .NET Framework. This book takes developers beyond the basics with .NET to show how to use .NET techno

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Very useful, highly recommended!.......2005-05-30

This book is very useful and well written!

#1. It covers most of important things in architecture design in enterprise development.
#2. It is easy to read. Easy to understand. To the point and a efficient learning tool.
#3. It is very accurate. With picky eyes, I have not found any inaccuracies so far. (Technology advancement will make some comments out-of-date, but that would be another story).
#4. You do not have to use web service or remoting for this book to be greatly helpful.
#5. It appears that the author knows every corner of distributed system design to a great depth.

Last comment/advice to Microsoft - Microsoft should invest more on this kind of quality books if it wants drag more IT projects on .Net and to defeat the competing platforms.

I recommend this book to IT professionals. 5 stars of course.

Informative as well as suprisingly useful for 70-310.......2004-11-30

Having recently passed 70-310, I found this book to be exceedingly helpful in cementing certain .NET distributed concepts for the exam-- meanwhile, related MCAD/MCSD study guides like those from Sybex and Microsoft (?!) came up short...

Chapters 1-9 of this book provided clear explanations and working examples for 70% of the content I encountered on my recent exam, while topics covered equally well in Chapters 11-15 accounted for the remaining 30%. Even Windows Services can be found about mid-way through Chapter 7.

If you are keen on moving into distributed .NET programming and/or preparing for 70-310 (like me), I would highly recommend this book. I would not have earned my MCAD credential without it...

Good Microsoft N-tier Architecture Text.......2004-11-27

Solid information for those interested in building N-tier architectures in a Microsoft world. Great stuff on how to build business objects -- I haven't found much on Microsoft object caching except in this book. Sadly, MS hasn't gone as deep as JBoss, BroadVision or similar products but this book helps fill the gap.

Excelent Book for Planning a System.......2004-08-26

This book won't tell you every single thing about .Net Remoting, Web Services, Com+ or Message Queueing, but since it gives you a lot of info on all those techs and a lot of others it's the perfect book for people who plan on creating Distributed Applications.
I have read it full now and it helped me a LOT in my work. I work as an application developer at a bank and I'm supposed to do the company workflow system. It has to be very scalable so I needed to build a distributed architecture. This book helped me building this architecture and getting it approved by the board.

Great Book!

Great survey of distributed apps.......2004-07-05

The author has a real gift for explaining the details of the diverse technologies ms offers for creating distributed apps. An excellent book.

MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C# .NET and the .NET Framework

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Building Real Life Systems with C# and .NET
Good Study Resource
Good book
Good Reference But Not Necessary for the Exam
Excellent Training Material for 70-320 Exam

MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C# .NET and the .NET Framework
Amit Kalani , and Priti Kalani
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This certification exam measures the ability to develop and implement XML Web Services and server components using Visual C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework. This exam, released in September 2002, counts as a core credit toward the new MCAD (Microsoft Certified Application Developer) certification as well as a core credit toward the new MCSD .NET track. Readers preparing for this exam find our Training Guide series to be the most successful self-study tool in the market. This book is their one-stop shop because of its teaching methodology, the accompanying PrepLogic testing software, and superior Web site support at quepublishing.com.

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Building Real Life Systems with C# and .NET.......2007-03-12

This book is designed for the intermediate level developer who wants to learn how to develop web services using Microsoft's C# in the .NET framework, and for those who want to pass the 70-320 examination. This is not a 'cram for the test' type book but instead gives you the information you need to do the job, and incidentally pass the test. It is not a complete book on C# or .NET or even the Visual Studio IDE software. It is on how to use these to build real life systems.

Tied in with this, of course is information on passing the test. There is information about the test itself, and practice examinations (one printed in the book, one on the CD included).

If you are just interested in passing the test, there is a shorter book in the Exam Cram2 series. It's written by the same author but is significantly smaller as it is test only oriented.

Good Study Resource.......2007-03-08

This is the 3rd Amit Kalani book that I have purchased and used to prepare for Microsoft certification exams. Very easy to understand and follow. Good exercises.

Good book.......2007-03-07

I read through the book and passed the exam. It gets the job done and covers the material.

Good Reference But Not Necessary for the Exam.......2007-01-19

I originally bought this book because I used another book by this author and publisher to pass the 70-315 exam. I only made it through the first half before stopping. I just found the material too dry and theoretical. Much of it consisted of memorizing classes and their properties and methods. I ordered the Transcenders with the study guide and finished my preparation with that instead and passed my exam. I have used this book as a reference for my daily work, and found it to be fairly good for that purpose. It's just not well suited for the exam.

Excellent Training Material for 70-320 Exam.......2006-11-08

I recently took and passed the 70-320 exam using this material as my primary reference. I commend the authors for their coverage of the test areas. The book is very well written with lots of example code to step through. I've done several MS Certifications and this is among the best training material I have used. A couple areas I found the book light on were Soap Headers and Leasing and Sponsorship. These topics are well covered on MSDN. Be sure to understand everything in the Appendix sections especially ADO. This book should serve well for both training and reference.

Microsoft .NET XML Web Services Step by Step

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Good for beginners
Great for beginners
I give this book an A+
Excellent tutorial for beginners.
Excellent hands on training

Microsoft .NET XML Web Services Step by Step
Adam Freeman , Allen Jones , and Adam Freeman
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Teach yourself how to write and deploy XML Web services for Microsoft .NET - one step at a time. XML Web services can vastly simplify application integration and interoperability, but developing them requires an understanding of many different programming

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Good for beginners.......2007-06-14

The book can be read in a day and half and at the end you'll really know something useful.

The topics covered are well thought out, though I thought the credit card example was pretty tedious and after a while, so I just started skipping it to read what was on topic.

My background is C++ and I came into the C# and XML Web Services with no experience in either; by the end of the book I was comfortable authenticating users, enabling sessions, keeping things in cache and hitting the database.

The book is a fine read and does a good getting you up to speed, one of the best I've read in a while; 4 stars (instead of 5) for using that credit card example, you're either going to love the example or hate it, however I wouldn't skip this book because of it.

Great for beginners.......2006-02-06

As the suffix title suggests, this book _does_not_rush_ things; very obviously catered for novice developers, it slowly oozes out information a step at a time. The authors exhibit their virtuous patience by going into great lengths to introduce the technology concepts that support XML web services, complete with comprehensive diagrams. These base explanations facilitate a firmer foundational understanding that no developer of XML web services should do without.

Accompanying this conceptual theory are practical-driven chapters, each demonstrating a facet of web service development in the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. The instructions are so minutely explicit and clear, virtually taking the reader by the hand (so much so might annoy more seasoned developers), that building the examples listed are exceedingly easy tasks. And I do not mean that in a blind copy-and-paste manner; the baby steps are enriched with proper explanations to ensure readers have sufficient knowledge of why such a piece of code exists somewhere. Even the asynchronous and multi-threading chapter, a topic that most developers tend not to have a good grip on, is written with amazing clarity. The book's 16 chapters are incredibly easy to read and digest, possessing little (if not none) of that confusing wordy fluff that delivers nothing; this one goes straight to the point, short and sweet.

Sometimes however, short can also mean _truncated_. There are places where it simply stops and closes shop on the chapter when more demonstrations are expected. Take for example the fifth chapter, where it is supposed to show using web services with HTTP requests along (without SOAP). It explains alot about HTTP-GET and HTTP-POST, but only walks through a HTTP-GET practical. I felt omitting HTTP-POST would not fair well in the light of educating novices.

While on the flow of novice practices, it also strangely presents a mix of good and legacy (not necessarily bad) examples. The use of the StringBuilder class to append strings together is a good one, but continuing to code with "" and string.ToLower() show an affinity to past platforms. string.Empty and CaseInsensitiveComparer are respectively preferred choices in the .NET Framework practice.

Almost needless to state, even with the "Advanced" part of the book, one should not be expecting any serious deep topics or design patterns revolving web services here. But I couldn't help but feel it waste for such fantastic writing style not delivering something more that is usually arcane in other books. Who should be blamed for desiring more out of a delicious meal?

Great book to get developers started and up to speed with XML web services. But those looking to become _masters_ should read something else.

Good: Crystal clear explanations; easy following; great beginner material
Bad: Little to offer beyond the beginner; odd omissions; few legacy practices

I give this book an A+.......2005-10-04

I found it to be a very good intro for beginners in XML Web Services like myself. Highly recomended.

Excellent tutorial for beginners........2005-10-01

I am half way through the book and I like it. It is a good tutorial that will hold your hand and help you taking your first steps on the planet WebServices. The authors selected an interesting and practical example subject, validating credit card numbers, so you will not need a lot of coffee to keep you awake.

The examples are so simple, so if you are an experienced OO programmer, keep in mind that the goal was introducing the subject not implementing the code in the most elegant way.

On the other hand, the authors followed a naming convention from hell. I am not just talking about casing but also the logical selection of class names. For example, In chapter 6 the authors were explaining the subject of sending objects and returning objects from/to web service. So they built a class and named it "ValidationObject". I don't want to sound like an OO lawyer here but the class is not an object; Objects are instances of the class.

Anyway, I guess a name like "CreditCard" would've made much more sense, after all it is a credit card we are passing around. Variables were named like this x_object, o_card_type.

Personally, I couldn't continue without building a names map. I just recorded each name and to which object it was given on a piece of paper.

A word of advice; this is not the type of book you want to come back for a second read hoping that it will give you more understanding of the subject. So make sure you will take notes and summarize the important facts of each chapter.

Excellent hands on training.......2005-08-29

This book provides excellent hands on training in .NET Web Services development. Although the book is a bit out of date...

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True to it's purpose
.NET Framework Essentials (3rd ED)
To Software Developers: Don't Bother
Excellent
OK but others are better

.NET Framework Essentials
Thuan Thai , and Hoang Lam
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Fully updated for version 1.1 of the .NET Framework, .NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition is an objective, concise, no-nonsense overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework for developing web applications and services. Written for intermediate to advanced VB, C/C++, Java, and Delphi developers, .NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition is also useful to system architects and leaders who are assessing tools for future projects. .NET Framework Essentials touches all the bases--from the Common Language Run-Time (CLR) and key class libraries to the specialized packages for ASP.NET, Windows Forms, XML Web Services, and data access (ADO.NET). The authors survey each major .NET language, including VB.NET, C#, J#, and Managed C++, as well as MSIL, clearing away the noise and hype, and presenting a clear, practical look at the underlying technologies. .NET Framework Essentials also provides a handy reference to the most commonly used features of .NET Framework. Written by two veteran web applications developers, .NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition is one of the most complete, concise, and ultimately useful books to describe the breadth of technology represented by .NET. Compact and free of fluff or proprietary hype, .NET Framework Essentials is an outstanding value for experienced programmers and architects who need to get up to speed quickly.

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True to it's purpose.......2006-05-17

I went to my local bookstore to get a functional understanding of ".NET". My previous readings had been hit and miss and provided little understanding of the new platform.

This book provided that understanding. The writeups on the CLR, assemblies, garbage collection, net components, web services, etc. were skeletal but quite good. I came away with some understanding of what .NET is, why it was developed and why I believe it should leapfrog Java in the web development world.

It wasn't an easy read since it provided good understanding with little detail, and takes some thought; but again, it serves it's purpose well.

.NET Framework Essentials (3rd ED).......2005-12-20

As the title says, this book gives the essentials of the .NET framework. It is not an exhaustive treatment, rather, it touches on the main features of .NET. The book assumes that the reader is fluent in object-oriented and component-based programming. Overall, the book was fairly well written with the main features of the .NET framework being clearly explained. The book has no distractive "fluff" in it, so one can easily dive into learning about .NET. The authors give an overview of .NET, and then present a description of the common language runtime (CLR). The common programming model and working with .NET components follow. XML data and web services are clearly explained with a lot of code snippets being given. The book concludes with chapters on ASP, Windows Forms, and mobile devices. The appendices are useful, as sometime acronyms aren't defined in the main text, but are explained in the appendix.

Overall, I found the book well written. The coverage of topics is actually fairly decent. The authors have done a good job of focusing on the essential aspects of .NET. If you're looking for a book that gives gives an overview of the heart of .NET, this is a good book. If you're looking for an exhaustive reference, than you'll probably want something else.

To Software Developers: Don't Bother.......2004-04-20

IMHO, OReilly tends to have the best technology books (I own many) but this book isn't one of them. This book is lightweight even as an introduction. This book is certainly fine for managers, senior architects, and business types, but if you plan to design and write software I recommend Jeff Prosise's "Programming Microsoft .NET" and Jeffrey Richter's "Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming", though a bit dated, both cover the .NET framework essentials and then some.

Excellent.......2003-11-06

Very well written primer on the .Net framework, internal workings of the CLR and language fundamentals. Great book.

OK but others are better.......2003-08-26

It is a fairly shallow overview of the .NET framework. The author tries to cover a lot of ground but that means each topic worth a chapter in another topical book gets a few pages here at most.

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With this guide, the authors set an ambitious course to help professional programmers understand the architecture of XML Web services and implement the right solutions by creating and consuming best-of-breed XML Web services. The book provides a hands-on

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Confusing and rehash of documentation........2005-03-23

The book is very confusing. Not clear and concise. Several of the chapters seems to be rehash of documentation meant to increase the size of the book.

Worst book on .net web services ever.......2005-02-23

This is a total disaster. The authors don't know how to present material for readers to understand. Examples are half cooked and mixed up between soap 1.1 and soap 1.2.

.NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

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Very clear introduction to MS web service technologies
This is a horrible book.
Substandard: shallow, few examples, MANY errors!!!
It is not a reference. It is only an overview.
No practical information to actually get you started

.NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Keith Ballinger
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Very clear introduction to MS web service technologies.......2006-09-15

I'm a Java architect/developer with quite a bit of web service experience. I purchased this book to help me write MS-based web service clients to test interoperability. I found the presentation to be logically structured and very clear. The writing is some of the best technical writing I've seen. It quickly helped me figure out the basics of how MS's web service framework works.

Note this is an older book, so I imagine quite a few things have changed since it was published - although the code generated by the toolkit I just downloaded is compatable with what I see in the book so far. Also, as others have mentioned, this book does not contain complex, real-world examples.

If you are looking for an intro/overview of MS WS technologies, and are willing to hit the web for updates, this book is a good choice.

This is a horrible book........2006-03-01

Web service architecture is a big topic and it's not easy to explain well. Obviously the author attempted to explain it but may be due to limited amount of time, his explanation is very shallow and sometimes almost useless: on page 49, he briefly touches how to create object reference with ID/HREF combinations and promises to discuss the topic in Chapter 9 in "greater detail". In chapter 9, on page 183, yes, he revisited that topic but only with 3 short lines of "explanation" which is pretty much the same as that on page 49 - where is the "greater detail"?

The language is bad too: on page 72, "There's a convenient Add Web Reference dialog box...exactly for that kind of thing." What do you mean by "that kind of thing"? Are you writing a professional book or just an IM chat message? Besides, the discussion of creating clients with VS .NET is horribly shallow.

Avoid this book.

Substandard: shallow, few examples, MANY errors!!!.......2005-05-22

This is one of the most disappointing books I have ever read. I have read a few books in the ".NET Development Series" before and have come to expect solid, easy to grasp, and useful information. This books fails on almost every account.

The explanations are inadequate. The author uses a lot of time to explain the obvious, while failing to explain more complex topics.

The language is really, really bad. An example: "Of course, there are many other applications of routing as well. As well, I fully expect that this specification will evolve over time."!!??

Maybe the most annoying thing about the book is all the dreadful typos and inconsistencies. I have never seen anything like it, and I cannot believe that anyone ever did any proofreading of this book. For example on page 35 he describes a very simple example of a Web Service, a class "TestClass" with one method "Add". On the next page is the image from Internet Explorer which shows what you see when you type the URL of the service on the server, the class is suddenly named "POClass". Later when he describes the SOAP Message for the service it is for another class altogether with a method "HelloWorld"???!!! In this example, it is easy to figure out what is wrong, and it is more annoying than anything else, but in other places where the material is not so easy to understand, the errors are harder to ignore.

Finally and maybe most importantly, the author fails to give any motivation for a lot of the things he does. For example, he describes how one in different ways (by using attributes, etc) can change the format of the soap messages for the service. However, he doesn't say a word about why one should prefer one format for the other.

It is not a reference. It is only an overview........2005-01-17

Hi,

In the first chapters, where the Keith describes the protocols and underlying technologies of the XML WebServices, the reader gets more question marks in his head only. The explanations are very short. Actually there is no explanation, the author recommends to see the specifications foreach topic. For many things even there isn't any information.

As you read the book, you get the feeling that the author knows everything about web services, but he is not willing to show everything. Maybe he didn't have much time for the book, or had other things to do.

Kaan Ozturk

No practical information to actually get you started.......2004-10-28

The author jumps around various topics, and constantly refers to SOAP standard section 5 or 7 in his descriptions. It looks as if he expect the readers to be fully conversant with the nuts and bolts of SOAP spec, and we all know this is a tall order.

Worst of all, he failed to put together even a single real world app to illustrate the best way to make use of web services, TODAY.

He talks about Web service technology as if the tech is an end onto itself.

Don't buy it, you know you don't have time to toil thru a dorky tech spec discussion, esp. when the spec itself is getting out-of-date very fast.

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Awesome book
Programming .NET Web Services
one of the best titles for web services developers
Understand web services in a .NET environment
VERY GOOD .NET WEB COVERAGE

Programming .NET Web Services
Alex Ferrara , and Matthew MacDonald
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Web services are poised to become a key technology for a wide range of Internet-enabled applications, spanning everything from straight B2B systems to mobile devices and proprietary in-house software. While there are several tools and platforms that can be used for building web services, developers are finding a powerful tool in Microsoft's .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Designed from scratch to support the development of web services, the .NET Framework simplifies the process--programmers find that tasks that took an hour using the SOAP Toolkit take just minutes. Programming .NET Web Services is a comprehensive tutorial that teaches you the skills needed to develop web services hosted on the .NET platform. Written for experienced programmers, this book takes you beyond the obvious functionality of ASP.NET or Visual Studio .NET to give you a solid foundation in the building blocks of web services, and leads you step-by-step through the process of creating your own. Beginning with a close look at the underlying technologies of web services, including the benefits and limitations, Programming .NET Web Services discusses the unique features of the .NET Framework that make creating web services easier, including the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and the namespaces used in .NET programming. Filled with numerous code examples using the C# language, the book leads you through some of the more challenging issues of web services development, including the use of proxies, marshalling of complex data types, state management, security, performance tuning and cross-platform implementation. The book also covers:

Creating and publishing your first web service
The UDDI project, tModels and what they mean for web service publishers Securing web service applications

Written for programmers who are familiar with the .NET Framework and interested in building industrial-strength web services, Programming .NET Web Services is full of practical information and good old-fashioned advice.

Customer Reviews:

Awesome book.......2006-10-27

I am reading this book after looking at some other WebService books, and this one is climbing the charts.
All the chapters are very thorough and I am quite surprised that not many people have discovered this gem.
Grab a copy and read it, and you will become a confident and knowledgeable web services developer.

Programming .NET Web Services.......2006-03-23

I like this book. It's very useful for a web developer.

one of the best titles for web services developers.......2003-10-14

This text addresses just about every challenge a web-services developer may face. Whether it involves calling a set of services asynchronously (and somehow keeping the client(s) updated of its progress) - or whether it is monitoring, profiling and logging your web-services - this text contains well explained examples of doing a lot of useful stuff.
It has saved me a lot of time - and I found it well worth the price.

Understand web services in a .NET environment.......2003-05-28

Web Services are a catchphrase that many Microsoft-centric developers are falling in love with and they don't know why. Hey, the affair isn't limited to Microsoft based development firms. Web Services are hot topics right now. They provide the best way yet to utilize the Internet for remote work.

For the uninitiated (and aren't we all at one time or another), web services are programs that rely on SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) to expose their interfaces across the Internet. This means you can write a program and, if you make it a web service, you will expose its public interfaces for anyone to use via the Internet.

This book takes a normal O'Reilly tack of presenting in-depth information that is appropriate for users who want to know the wherefores behind the decisions. The authors present the Microsoft/Visual Studio methodology where many of the tedious tasks of Web Service development are performed for the user. They also do a solid job of presenting why that work must be done by someone and how to do it if you don't want to use Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET). The book gives good information (about 30 pages) covering Web Service Description Language (WSDL) before it covers the incredible facility VS.NET provides for generating these documents. WSDL docs are necessary for every web service you build if you expect anyone to use your program. The authors explain and lead the reader through the process of writing a web service and consuming a web service. They also expend effort on discussing stateful versus non-stateful web services and how to appropriately choose the best methodology for your application. With the performance gains that can be attained in IIS 6 via caching, the assertion the authors make about considering caching during design phase rather than after development is in testing or production struck a chord. The book covers IIS 6's caching choices as well as explaining the benefits and drawbacks of both. I didn't finish the debugging and security sections but plan to get back into the book and finish them as they look valuable.

In conclusion, if you want to mine a book for a robust understanding of web services and the constituent pieces of that technology (with all your examples in C#) then this book is for you. If you're looking to get a 5 minute read and start throwing code (and probably exceptions), pick up a less thorough book. You'll actually read this one instead of just looking for examples to copy. The information this book imparts should be standard knowledge for anyone that expects to write production quality web services.

VERY GOOD .NET WEB COVERAGE.......2003-01-16

"Programming .NET Web Services" is an easy-to-understand text, which simplified all the difficult aspects of XML Web Services (as it concerned Microsoft .NET platform).
At 500 pages, this book is not that voluminous, yet, it detailed most of the essential issues needed in order to utilize all the .NET options which one is likely to encounter on both Microsoft and non-Microsoft clients.
I really find this book useful, despite the fact that some of its elaborations are not as extensive as I would like them to be. This textbook is better used as a daily text, or as the case may be, a quick reference resource.

MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET

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Good Resource for XML Editing
More confusing
Very Poorly Written
If you find this book useful, don't take the exam yet.
Very Poor

MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET
Microsoft Corporation , and Microsoft Corporation
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Developing XML Web Services and Server Components - MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit - self-training course - CD

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Good Resource for XML Editing.......2006-06-01

I have found "Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft VB.NET" an invaluable tool in XML editor development. It is quite detailed about accessing and manipulating XML data.

More confusing.......2006-02-04

I was reading it as first book for most of the topics, It was total waste of time to read it.

Might help if you are already well expreinced with .NET but not for beginner

Very Poorly Written.......2005-09-07

Judging by the positive reviews, this book must have some merit but it is certainly not in the quality of its writing or its accuracy. Perhaps the editor was reassigned to Longhorn duties. Here are some examples of what you can expect in the first two chapters:

"A COM+ component exists in three states: exists and activated, exists and not activated, and nonexistent."

"The pool objects are not destroyed even after their release from the client application. COM+ retains the destroyed object in the pool for recycling..."

" If the value of the CanStop property is set to False, the SCM does not pass the Stop command to the service application."

It's main value to me is as a syllabus. You can use it to direct your search for better explanations on MSDN and, of course, everyone should have Troelsen's "C# and the .NET Platform" which is the best textbook I have read. Ever.

If you find this book useful, don't take the exam yet........2005-04-12

It is at a very basic level. It can be useful for starting in XML webservices, but not enough for the exam.
Some information is outdated.
It has errors. So does the practice test.
Doesn't cover at least one topic which is in the practice test.
The practice test doesn't tell you what is considered the correct answer.
If you find this book useful, you're not yet prepared for the exam.

Very Poor.......2004-11-16

While some chapters are readable, others are very poor (remoting) and some examples just do not work.

Enterprise Application Development with Visual C++ 2005 (Programming Series)

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Taking C++ into the .NET Environment

Enterprise Application Development with Visual C++ 2005 (Programming Series)
Max Fomitchev
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Enterprise Application Development with Visual C++ 2005 teaches developers how to create practical business applications using managed C++ and Visual Studio® 2005. It offers best practices for coding and C++ development, including class programming, code factoring, source control, memory management, and interdependency and interoperability. Special attention is also given to new features in Visual C++ 2005, such as IDE enhancements, compiler features, ECMA syntax for managed C++, and C++ language extensions. Database application development, XML Web Service integration, and MSI deployment tools integrated in Visual Studio 2005 are also covered in detail. Throughout the book a wide variety of practical examples are used to illustrate features of the language. In addition, users learn how to create an enterprise application installation package from the ground up, which performs a full range of deployment tasks ranging from creating SQL Server database to registering and configuring both managed and unmanaged Windows and XML Web Services. After reading this detailed resource, developers and programmers will have all the skills needed to create enterprise-quality applications.

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Bad book.......2007-05-10

I cannot find this book useful. It's a heap of shallow text, harmful for beginners and unuseful for any other. It lacks of substance and it's full of errors and imperfections. Who want it?!

Pretty good, some rough edges.......2007-01-15

I bought this book because I'm a long-time C++ developer (mostly Gnu) and wanted to come up to speed fast on VC++ 2005. This book was good for that, although I'd not recommend it as a way to learn C++ from the ground up.

The book has two rough edges: (a) occasional proofreading mistakes (sometimes amounting to fairly serious errors of fact, more often just typos), and (b) continuous "moose and squirrel" grammar that omits definite article. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar) ) With those caveats, I'd recommend it for the same purpose I used it.

A top reference for applications developers.......2006-08-05

Max Fomitchev's Enterprise Application Development With Visual C++ 2005 comes from a Moscow Ph.D. and covers the best practices for coding and C++ development. Plenty of practical real-life examples pepper instruction on how to use compilers, enhance and change database applications, and more. The fundamentals of successful coding and application development practices are imparted along with coverage of the latest Visual C++ 2005 features, making this a top reference for applications developers.

Taking C++ into the .NET Environment.......2006-06-14

For programming enterprise level applications the Microsoft .NET framework has grown to some 30% marketshare (J2EE has about 40%). While originally .NET was developed to compete with the Java Runtime libraries as part of the breakup of Microsoft that was ordered by Judge Jackson, it has become a major thrust within Microsoft to help maintain their dominant position in the marketplace.

For developing applications Microsoft has developed the Visual Studio integrated development environment which supports the programming of applications in four languages: Visual Basic, C#, J# and of course C++. While Microsoft would prefer that you use their propriatary languages they still support C++ which is arguably somewhat more powerful than the other languages.

This book is a complete and detailed text on programming in C++ using Visual Studio 2005. It is highly oriented to the .NET Framework 2.0. The book is more in reference format than tutorial which makes it easier to find what you are lookin for when you go back to confirm what you've read. It is intended for both experienced and novice C++ programmers, but I don't think that it is suitable for the total beginner to programming. Some work beforehand on a beginning C++ book would be desirable, a lot of the minor details like language structure are not explained at the absolute beginner level.

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: RELOADED, Advanced

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Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: RELOADED, Advanced
Richard Johnson , and Diane Zak
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Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: RELOADED, Advanced is designed for a second course in Visual Basic 2005. Authors Richard Johnson and Diane Zak employ a readable, approachable, and enjoyable way of learning advanced programming topics, picking up where Diane Zak left off with Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: RELOADED, Second Edition. RELOADED, Advanced provides an extensive review of material in the first book, allowing users to brush up on their Visual Basic skills.

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