Microsoft .NET XML Web Services Step by Step

Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET

Programming .NET Web Services

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

Format: Paperback
Author: Matthew MacDonald
ReleaseDate: 12 February, 2003
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Rating:

Very useful, highly recommended!
It covers most of important things in architecture design in enterprise development. This book is very useful and well written!

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#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 (Technology advancement will make some comments out-of-date, but that would be another story).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.
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Informative as well as suprisingly useful for 70-310
NET distributed concepts for the exam-- meanwhile, related MCAD/MCSD study guides like those from Sybex and Microsoft (?!) came up short. Having recently passed 70-310, I found this book to be exceedingly helpful in cementing certain .. .

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