.Net Web Services: Architecture and Implementation

Too many books talk about web services and spend more time on hype and nonsense then showing you how to build and use them. This book however, does not have that shortcoming.The thing about this book that is so compelling is that you really get into building web services and consuming them, and its done in a way that is very practical and useful.There's the standard explanation of the things, but he never gets all into the hype at the expense of content.I think it's geared toward people with a basic understanding of web services, but even if you don't have that, if you walk through his examples, you'll get there quickly.I will definitely buy anything else that he puts out. He's a great writer and communicator.

This is the best book I have read on Web Services using .NETThis is definitely for those who are at begineer to intermediate stage. The languages is simple, the examples are concise and to the point. There are so many features in .NET it would be literally impossible to conver in one Book. But this book does the best at doing just that.I have just completed a project using web services and now after reading this book, I have few ideas to go back and improve the service right from designing to performance. Can't ask more from reading a book :-).

Keith's book on web services does what a lot of books out there on web services right now don't - that is, gives real, pertinent advice about how to implement the damn things! My favorite part was about the interop. Anyway, worth the $$ and the time.

I feel this book is a lot different than most of the books on the market dealing with this subject. The author has a unique, well founded perspective on the subject, and is not afraid to share it with the reader. Definitely NOT a re-hash of the W3C specs or .Net SDK docs.

This is an easy book to read. The technical details were great. I learned a lot that I can apply to my work. The last chapter had tips on interoperability with other Web service platforms like Java that seem valuable.