Visual Basic .Net XML Web Services Developer's Guide

Take XML Web services beyond commonplace uses to the realm of production-grade, data-intensive enterprise application integration and Web commerce projects. Use SOAP and WSDL standards and the .NET Framework to open your client applications and server components to XML Web services located anywhere on the Internet. Leverage Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET to generate new Web services that deliver syndicated content, financial reports, and business partner interoperation. As you progress through "Visual Basic .NET XML Web Services Developer's Guide, you'll discover the easiest and fastest methods for creating and deploying enterprise-level XML Web services with Visual Basic .NET.Discover how XML Web services help you develop distributed applications faster Understand XML Web service architecture and core industry standards Convert VB6 components to XML Web services with the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit Port VB6 component code to ASP.NET Web Services with the Upgrade Wizard Compare performance of complex XML Web services with COM and DCOM counterparts Move between rpc/encoded and document/literal SOAP message formats Authenticate and authorize users with SOAP headers Validate SOAP request and response documents and their datatypes with XSD schemas Use the Office XP Web Service Toolkit to SOAP-enable productivity applications Connect to, and interact with, live production XML Web services at www.oakleaf.ws Download more than 90 megabytes of Visual Basic .NET code examples and back-end databases from www.osborne.com