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Summary: Excellent tutorial for beginners.
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Excellent hands on training
Comment: 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 Although the book is a bit out of date...
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Summary: Intro Yes, Step by Step No...
Comment: In general I would say this book has something to offer to the introductory XML Web service author. It covers a broad number of beginning topics and even lightly touches on some intermediate level areas.
Where the book falls short, in my opinion, is in the area of how the sample exercies are constructed. The sample Web service projects are stored in a variety of different virtual directories, yet they utilize the same services names, so isolating them in the Web Reference dialog box requires a little know how that I think could confuse the beginner. Additionally the client projects reutilize a number of form controls and layouts and could have significantly benefited from one form type that was modified over the course of the client projects. Lastly, in terms of the exercises, the book did not always make clear the changes required in client side code, indicating that changes were highlighted when in fact other changes were evident and required as well.
From an 10,000 foot view I think the exercises could have more directly mapped to an object-oriented design philosphy, wherein the additional functionality was encapsulated in classes a little more cleanly and done as incremental changes to the exercises.
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Summary: Excellent
Comment: This book and Programming Visual Basic .NET by Francesco Balena have answered virtually all of my questions about building production distributed database applications using XML Web services. If you're interested, you can download a sample of my working code at www.opointe.com
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Summary: very good intro to web services
Comment: I found this book very good for an intro to web services
This books also gives good tips to debuggin in web services which I have not found in any book. All the examples work
except for the example which demonstrates integrated security,
which is a real shame.
This book took me 3 days to go through. I am very pleased with
the content.
As with most books this book lacks a real world implementation
at the end.
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