and examines how these standards are integrated into ASP.NET. The processes involved in building and consuming Web Services are discussed along with in-depth code examples. The book concludes with three case studies, each examining a different application of Web Services, and presenting a complete solution. This book covers: * Building and consuming Web Services in ASP.NET * Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) * Web Services Description Language (WSDL) * Discovering Web Services with UDDI * Exposing data sources through Web Services * Performance techniques * Securing Web Services * Transactional Web Services * .NET My Services (Hailstorm) The code in this book is presented in C#. Full Visual Basic .NET versions of all code samples and case studies are available along with C# downloads on the Wrox website.

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