Product DescriptionExtensible Markup Language (XML) has been perhaps the biggest buzzword in application development for several years and now Microsoft has taken XML into the core of its .NET Framework. This book is aimed at teaching XML (and related technologies such as XPath, XSLT, and XML Schema) to beginning and intermediate C# developers who want to understand what all the fuss is about.
Over the course of the book readers will develop a good appreciation of not only what XML is, and how to handle it in C#, but also how to use XML to build applications to run on a single desktop, single web server or distributed, multi-platform web services, in ways that have been extremely difficult to achieve with previous technologies.
To reinforce the core concepts, the book makes use of numerous individual examples along with two case studies. Firstly, there is an examination of how different XML based approaches can be used in the development of a contact application. The complexity of the project develops as the reader's knowledge increases through the book. Secondly, we dedicate a full chapter to describing the use of XML and a SQL Server database in the implementation of a web-based news portal.
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Rating: - I hope that guy from London doesn't code professionally
This is a code snippet from the book on page 25 (first code sample in the book): DataTable objTable = new DataTable(); DataRow objNewRow; objDataSet.WriteXML( "C:\\AddXML\\Contacts2.xml" ); DataSet objDataSet2 = new DataSet(); objDataSet2.ReadXML( "C:\\AddXML\\Contacts2.xml" ); dataGrid1.DataSource = objDataSet2.Tables[0].DefaultView;
Now, where exactly is the objNewRow used? Why declare it if you're not going to instantiate it or reference something with ... Read More
Rating: - Could have been better
I bought this book as an introductory text to teach myself XML with C#. The book gives me that, but it could have been done far better. I am left with the overall impression that this was either a first time effort for the authors, or that the book was rushed to make a deadline and not enough editorial review and proof-reading took place (I suspect both).
Simple things like the illogical order in which topics are presented throughout each chapter, misleading diagrams, unclear or just plain ... Read More
Rating: - Not an easy read -- mistakes -- relatively good coverage
This is not an easy book to read. The first 3 chapters are very heavy going with little in the way of productive examples. I was looking for a book that gave me the basics of XML with C#. I was not looking for a book that spent the first 3 chapters covering the basics of XML on its own.
Having said that, I think the authors do a fairly good job of covering the material that they are attempting to do. This is definitely an introduction to XML, though, and there are a lot of unanswered detail ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Xml and .Net book
I really enjoyed this book and didn't find ANY problems with the code as the reviewer below stated - maybe he was doing something wrong.
Wrox support wasn't very good but i didn't need it much.
Some examples are complex, but then some of the topics are pretty complex and it does a good job of explaining them - will help if you have a larger pure XML reference book too!!
Rating: - beginner XML
ALOT examples are missing in this book OR don't work, but this book is defineltly NOT good enough to get you started.
The merits of the book is a good intro to new technology when working with .net but what is the good if the code don't work as in this book
there is missing code in chapter1 adding a recordset to xmlfile chapter3 code in p118 and 119 don't work Chapter 8 discusses xslt isn a very poor manner, in addition to all the missing xslt files and the non working ... Read More
- I hope that guy from London doesn't code professionally
- Excellent Xml and .Net book
- beginner XML
