Customer Reviews:
 Good coverage of XML with a usable parser May 31, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Good coverage of XML with a usable parser ... ... however, you are left the problem "why did I just learn all this stuff". It goes into great depths showing you how to traverse through XML, but it never tells you why you would want to do it. It certainly never connects the the XML applications with a .NET web service. After going into great detail showing you how you write a schemea, it all turns out to be pointless because you don't actually need to use one for a .NET Web Service (which is what I thought the book was all about). Similarly the subject of WSDL is covered in great detail - why go to this depth and never explain why. It mentions the passing of credentials as a SOAP header on page 316 and the book ends on page 327. This book is a Microsoft reference lift turned into a book with a scabby example of a "real-life" example. Forget this book and by the Microsoft Developing XML Web Serices and Server Solutions.
a beginner book with missing downloadable code January 20, 2003
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
For a beginner book. So far this book has not given me
any more information about web services than a beginning
book for vb.net or c#.Few things to note,
could not get to work:
1/ chp4. web service proxy class example
2/ chp6 and chp7 is missing both the .mdf and ldf files
the examples WILL NOT work without it
3/ chp8 is missing the show_data.mdf
the examples WILL NOT work without it For a beginner book to be thrown out with missing files
and non working examples, there should be no excuse for this
since the examples are not even difficult Oddly enough, the databases for the vb.net version for this
book does work for the c#. I was fortunate enough to have wrox sent me the db file for
chapter 7 but again I was hit with misfortune from additional missing code
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