XML is the de facto language for communication within and between distributed applications, whether theyre on the Internet or a corporate network. XML is successful because of two strengths: it has a highly-structured human readable format and it can be transmitted as pure text. No matter how disparate applications and their architectures may be, text files can always be read, and therefore can accept XML data. This makes XML-based solutions advantageous over rival technologies like remoting.
Pro .NET 2.0 XML is the first book to provide a complete solution to XML on the .NET Framework 2.0 including the new .NET 3.0 extensions that are being released in January 2007. It provides you with everything you need to know to take advantage of XML in every aspect of your jobincluding integration with Windows Communication Foundation.
This is the first book that describes how XML interacts with Windows Communication Foundation (part of the new .NET 3.0 extensions).
Author Bipin Joshi is a Microsoft Certified Trainer who regularly teaches classes on XML. He provides the kind of clear, precise guidance that you need.
This will be the most complete book on .NET 2.0 XML available. It covers everything you need to use XML effectively.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Excellent starter for .NET & XML
I was looking for a book to get me started in XML. I wasn't interested in Web Services or anything like that, I just wanted to learn how to read through and do some clever things with XML.
This book really helped me a lot. This should be the starting place for all .NET programmers wanted to begin XML. I appreciate the book it has helped me tremendously.
Rating: - Great C# XML Guide
This book is very well written with practical examples in C#. If you are an experienced developer you won't need much more. Enough said.
Rating: - Solid book, broad but shallow
This book has a number of flaws, but it's still a useful book for learning about using XML in the .NET world.
There are a number of weakness in the book in that it's rather shallow and leaves out details or concerns on a number of topics. Examples include skimming over a DataSet's ability to infer a schema when reading data in. Are there any drawbacks? When would you use this? When might you want to avoid it?
So with the negatives out of the way, let me focus on the ... Read More
Rating: - no more "pro" books for me
Book is extremly poorly written and covers just a little more than MSDN documentation.
The entire book is copy-pasted template paragraphs of the following format:
- 2-3 lines of code
- a paragraph of 5-10 lines explaining what it does, almost always following the same template:
"The code creates a class named Employee with five public properties: EmployeeID, FirstNmae, LastName, HomePhone and Notes... " page 284
"The code creates an instance of the proxy class... ... Read More
- Excellent starter for .NET & XML
- no more "pro" books for me
