Foreword | p. xvii |
What Are Web Services? | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 2 |
Understanding Web Services | p. 3 |
Communication between Servers | p. 8 |
.asmx Files | p. 10 |
WSDL | p. 15 |
Using XML in Web Services | p. 16 |
An Overview of the System. Web.Services Namespace | p. 17 |
The System. Web.Services.Description Namespace | p. 17 |
The System. Web.Services.Discovery Namespace | p. 17 |
The System. Web.Services.Protocols Namespace | p. 18 |
Type Marshalling | p. 19 |
Using DataSets | p. 21 |
Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework | p. 29 |
Introduction | p. 30 |
Obtaining the .NET Framework SDK | p. 31 |
System Requirements | p. 31 |
Hardware | p. 32 |
Operating System | p. 33 |
Additional Installation Information | p. 33 |
Locations for Downloading | p. 34 |
Installing the .NET Framework | p. 34 |
Common Language Runtime | p. 36 |
Major Responsibilities of the CLR | p. 36 |
Safety and Security Checks | p. 37 |
Class Loading | p. 37 |
Object Lifetime Management | p. 37 |
Just In Time (JIT) Compilation | p. 38 |
Cross-Language Interoperability | p. 38 |
Structured Exception Handling | p. 39 |
Assemblies | p. 39 |
Metadata | p. 40 |
Enhanced Deployment and Versioning Support | p. 41 |
Managed versus Unmanaged Code | p. 41 |
Interoperability with Unmanaged Code | p. 42 |
Namespaces | p. 42 |
Developing Applications with the .NET Framework | p. 43 |
Development Platforms for .NET | p. 43 |
Language Choice | p. 45 |
Using the Compilers | p. 45 |
Tools | p. 46 |
Base Class Libraries | p. 49 |
Components in the .NET Framework | p. 55 |
ASP.NET | p. 55 |
ADO.NET | p. 56 |
VB.NET | p. 57 |
C# | p. 59 |
Windows Forms | p. 60 |
Web Services | p. 61 |
XML Fundamentals | p. 67 |
Introduction | p. 68 |
An Overview of XML | p. 68 |
What Does an XML Document Look Like? | p. 69 |
Creating an XML Document | p. 70 |
Creating an XML Document in VS.NET XML Designer | p. 71 |
Components of an XML Document | p. 72 |
Well-Formed XML Documents | p. 75 |
Schema and Valid XML Documents | p. 76 |
Structure of an XML Document | p. 80 |
Processing XML Documents Using .NET | p. 81 |
Reading and Writing XML Documents | p. 82 |
Storing and Processing XML Documents | p. 83 |
Reading and Parsing Using the XmlTextReader Class | p. 84 |
Parsing an XML Document | p. 85 |
Navigating through an XML Document to Retrieve Data | p. 87 |
Writing an XML Document Using the XmlTextWriter Class | p. 90 |
Generating an XML Document Using XmlTextWriter | p. 90 |
Exploring the XML Document Object Model | p. 93 |
Navigating through an XmlDocument Object | p. 94 |
Parsing an XML Document Using the XmlDocument Object | p. 95 |
Using the XmlDataDocument Class | p. 98 |
Loading an XmlDocument and Retrieving the Values of Certain Nodes | p. 99 |
Using the Relational View of an XmlDataDocument Object | p. 100 |
Viewing Multiple Tables of a XmlDataDocument Object | p. 103 |
Querying XML Data Using XPathDocument and XPathNavigator | p. 107 |
Using XPathDocument and XPathNavigator Objects | p. 110 |
Using XPathDocument and XPathNavigator Objects for Document Navigation | p. 112 |
Transforming an XML Document Using XSLT | p. 115 |
Transforming an XML Document to an HTML Document | p. 116 |
Transforming an XML Document into Another XML Document | p. 119 |
Working with XML and Databases | p. 124 |
Creating an XML Document from a Database Query | p. 125 |
Reading an XML Document into a DataSet | p. 127 |
Information Exchange Using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) | p. 135 |
Introduction | p. 136 |
The Case for Web Services | p. 136 |
The Role of SOAP | p. 137 |
Why SOAP? | p. 138 |
Why Web Services? | p. 139 |
Wiring Up Distributed Objects--The SOAP Protocol | p. 139 |
Creating Your Very First Web Service | p. 139 |
Running Your Very First Web Service | p. 146 |
Working with Web Services | p. 159 |
Passing Complex Data Types | p. 159 |
Error Handling | p. 162 |
Malformed SOAP Request | p. 163 |
Wrong Argument Types | p. 165 |
Exceptions in Server Code | p. 165 |
Writing a SOAP Client Application | p. 167 |
Passing Objects | p. 174 |
Passing Relational Data (DataSets) | p. 179 |
Passing XML Documents | p. 182 |
SOAP Headers | p. 186 |
Advanced Web Services | p. 187 |
Maintaining State | p. 187 |
State Information in the URL (URL Mangling) | p. 189 |
State Information in the Http Header (Cookies) | p. 191 |
State Information in the Http Body (SOAP Header) | p. 194 |
Security | p. 202 |
WSDL and UDDI | p. 209 |
Introduction | p. 210 |
Web Service Standards | p. 211 |
Describing Web Services--WSDL | p. 211 |
Discovering Web Services--DISCO | p. 217 |
Publishing Web Services--UDDI | p. 219 |
Working with UDDI | p. 220 |
Building an ASP.NET/ADO.NET Shopping Cart with Web Services | p. 233 |
Introduction | p. 234 |
Setting Up the Database | p. 234 |
Setting Up the Table Books | p. 237 |
Setting Up the Table Categories | p. 237 |
Setting Up the Table Customer | p. 237 |
Setting Up the Table Orders | p. 238 |
Setting Up the Table BookOrders | p. 238 |
Creating an Access Database | p. 238 |
SQL Server Database | p. 242 |
Creating the Stored Procedures | p. 244 |
Creating the Web Services | p. 250 |
Overview of the Book Shop Web Services | p. 250 |
Creating the Data Connection | p. 252 |
Creating a Web Service | p. 253 |
Testing a Web Service in ASP.NET | p. 259 |
Using WSDL Web References | p. 263 |
Building the Site | p. 264 |
Site Administration | p. 266 |
Creating the Administration Login (adminLogin.aspx) | p. 266 |
Creating the Administrator Page (adminPage.aspx) | p. 268 |
Retrieving the Data: Creating the getBooks.AllBooks Web Method | p. 268 |
Displaying the Data: Binding a DataGrid to the DataSet | p. 272 |
Adding New Books to the Database: Creating the allBooks.addItem Web Method | p. 272 |
Deleting Books: Deleting from the DataGrid and the Database | p. 272 |
Updating Book Details: Updating the DataGrid and the Database | p. 273 |
Creating the addBook Page (addBook.aspx) | p. 274 |
Customer Administration | p. 275 |
Creating the Customer Admin Section | p. 275 |
Creating the loginCustomer Page | p. 275 |
Creating the updateCustomerInfo Page | p. 276 |
Creating an ADOCatalog | p. 278 |
Creating the BookCatalog Class | p. 279 |
Creating the CreateSummary Table Method | p. 280 |
Creating the InitCatalog Method | p. 281 |
Creating the Catalog Method | p. 281 |
Creating the catalogItemDetails, catalogRange, and catalogByCategory Methods | p. 281 |
Creating the catalogRangeByCategory Method | p. 282 |
Building an XMLCart | p. 284 |
Creating the User Interface | p. 287 |
Creating the start.aspx Page | p. 288 |
Rendering the Catalog | p. 289 |
Rendering the Cart | p. 290 |
Creating the Code | p. 290 |
Building a SQLXML Web Service Application | p. 299 |
Introduction | p. 300 |
SQLXML Web Services | p. 301 |
Developing the TimeTrack Application | p. 301 |
Creating the Database | p. 302 |
Creating the Stored Procedures | p. 303 |
Creating a SQL Server Virtual Directory | p. 305 |
Enabling Stored Procedures for Soap | p. 310 |
Creating a Client Application in ASP.NET | p. 313 |
Consuming the Web Services | p. 317 |
Building a Jokes Web Service | p. 337 |
Introduction | p. 338 |
Motivation and Requirements for the Jokes Web Service | p. 338 |
Functional Application Design | p. 340 |
Defining Public Methods | p. 340 |
Defining the Database Schema | p. 341 |
Defining the Web Service Architecture | p. 342 |
Security Considerations | p. 344 |
State Management | p. 345 |
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