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Rating: Summary: Lives up to Title Review: I too found it difficult to find an XML book dealing with Specifically .NET. This book does a good job in alot of respects, but falls short and wanders off the subject a bit in some chapters (this of course can be skipped over.) The author does give alot of real world examples through out the book, which is always a plus. Overall highlights in what I learned:
Serializing / Deserializing XML in .NET
.NET XML Base classes and their Implementations
SQL Server 2000 interaction with .NET & XML
ASP.NET Web Services (you create a public Address book Web Service)
It even has a decent reference section at the end dealing with XSLT that I find I use frequently.
This book represents (at this time) a great bargain!
Rating: Summary: Finally, a book on XML that shows its real world use. Review: I would recommend this book to someone who has been working with ASP.NET and needs to increase their knowledge of how XML fits into the whole scheme of things in relation to .NET. I have read some other books on XML but was never able to truly understand where and why it is used. This book gives concrete examples of XML in use, and where possible, showing how ASP.NET developers can incorporate XML into their own projects to make them more distributed, among other reasons described. What more can an ASP.NET developer ask for, the book covers all the tools available to utilize XML in ones solutions. For example, XML with SQL2000, XML with the .NET Class Libraries, XML with Visual Studio, to name a few.This book is not about the theory of XML like most other XML books are. It is about the tools available that are used to make XML do the things that it is designed to do; create productive, real world software components and solutions. There are even two actual real world sample applications included with the book. The book is not an easy read where you'll get everything the first time through. I've had to read some sections a couple times through to grasp, but my knowledge of XML was a black hole. The book is compact and focused. If you work with ASP.NET, or SQL2000, this book will make XML your strong point rather than your weak point. They even have a website dedicated to the book.
Rating: Summary: XML and ASP.NET in a wedlock Review: It is an excellent effort by authors to bringup a book on two bleeding edge technologies, one emerging leader in server side technology and other the defacto industry standard for data interchange. Authors cover XML from the groundup and seamlessly guide novices as well as experienced developers in building a real world application. DOM and SAX API (MSXML 4.0), features in SQL SERVER 2000 which generates XML from the stored data and the hottest buzzwords of the town viz,WebServices and SOAP are also explained in depth. Two full fledged sample projects utilizing all the above features are also provided. This book is a boon to ASP developers who intend to make their application more scalable, extensible and distributed with XML. It also covers the major tools available to exploit the powerful features of XML. Though tons of code sprinkled throughout the book is a big welcome, an enclosed CD would have made life easier. The one drawback that I found is that this book assumes a background knowledge of ASP, ADO, etc.
Rating: Summary: Not even remotely decipherable to a beginner Review: More about XML than "XML and ASP.NET." I have already read a lot on XML and this book just confused me about what I already knew. It is full of definitions that don't really define anything and is lacking in good examples. I have read many, many books on programming and on the .Net framework specifically and this is by far one of the worst. After I know XML well I am sure that I will come back to this book and understand it completely. I am very sorry that I wasted my money on this book.
Rating: Summary: Best Book on .net and XML yet Review: The book covers many aspects of XML on Windows platforms (.NET and MSXML). However, the writing is not very skillful, making it difficult to wade through such technical material. The progression through a topic often is non-linear: Within a chapter points are used before being introduced forcing much re-reading. Many times there are forward references to topics discussed much later in the book without any explaination. There are much more readable books out there (such as the excellent O'Reilly series) that make learning this kind of technology much more fun.
Rating: Summary: Well organized and readable book on XML and APS.NET Review: The book XML and ASP.NET provides a wide coverage of this subject. This book's audience is for developers already using XML, as it covers advanced NET and ASP topics. It introduces XML technologies used in the .NET framework. Readers should download the project before reading each chapter. These project files and examples are written in both C# and Visual Basic. The book covers XML on the client followed by the Server. On the server, it covers XML and ADO, XML and SQL 2000 Server, serialization and mobile applications for XML. This book provides a clearer understanding of the concepts of XML within a .NET development environment and moves the developer to the next level.
Rating: Summary: Not even remotely decipherable to a beginner Review: This book reads like a medical journal, point-by-point layout out the facts and presenting very narrow-minded interpretations of what ASP.NET and XML are designed to do. For one thing, the authors exude an opinion in their writing that ASP.NET is useless without XML, and that XML is the greatest thing to come along since the transistor. I disagree with the sentiments, but that's beside the point. This book doesn't accomplish anything in the end but to confuse the reader. It's as if the authors are trying to impress you with how many acronyms they can spit out in a single page (I counted over 30 on one particular page). This is not writing, this is not teaching, it is shooting facts at the reader with a shotgun. In retrospect, I read this book a year ago when I was new to ASP.NET (but not to XML). I find it useful for storing read-only data in XML to be used in ASP.NET web sites. However, it's still one of the dryest books you will ever find.
Rating: Summary: Excellent comprehensive look at new technology Review: This is the best book I've seen for putting XML technology in the context of Microsoft's .NET framework. There's the standard coverage of XML concepts from the ground up, which are easy to pick up pretty quickly. This book's great strength, though, is that it places those XML concepts in the context of practical application in .NET. The book covers things such as accessing .NET XML config files, (very helpful), XML and ADO, XML and SQL Server 2K, serialization and mobile applications for XML. I'm not primarly an ASP programmer, but the config sections were immediately useful to me, and XML's new role in Microsoft's ADO/SQL technologies meant those chapters were a big help, also. The book has no CD, but it has lots of code examples. It looks like the samples are evenly divided between C# and Visual Basic. XML is a fairly easy-to-understand technology that lots of people have avoided bothering to pick up because they've had no compelling reason. Microsoft gives them a reason by embedding XML in practically every aspect of .NET. This book's a big help in getting up to speed because it's clearly written, very detailed and quite comprehensive.
Rating: Summary: Programming with XML and ASP.NET? You need this book! Review: Wow, what can I say about this book? Not enough good things anyway for starters. The three authors' desire to explain their chosen topics is evident throughout and their enthusiasm for the subject matter is infectious. Content like the .NET Framework's System.Xml namespace, the MSXML parser, database communications with XML through ADO.NET, client-side and server-side presentation of XML data are all handled expertly and explained with an air of authority that is irrefutable. Of particular interest to me (as I use it on a daily basis) was the treatment of SQL Server's handling of XML - this is, if you've ever had to trudge through SQL Server Books Online - a pretty hard topic to locate information about. I liked the appendices also - I've seen some companies shamelessly flog books with far less real content than what's contained in these ones. I particularly liked the XSLT reference as I feel that it's something that a lot of XML books that I've read have neglected. This is one the most comprehensive books that I've ever read on its topic and a great addition to any technical library.
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