Thom Robbins

One of the key ideas behind the .NET strategy is the concept of software as a service, or in short, Web Services. This session will explain what a Web service is and provide an overview of its related technologies like XML, SOAP, and UDDI. We will demonstrate how the .NET Framework makes it easy to implement them for new and existing applications. This session will also provide concrete best practices for building XML Web services using Visual Studio.NET. We'll answer many common questions like: How will my Web service scale? How can my XML Web services enable interoperability with Web services from other vendors as well as within my own organization? We'll delve into building highly reliable and secure Web services. Also, we will discuss issues such as dealing with com... (more)

Advanced Web Services Using ASP .NET

This session we will explore some of the more advanced areas of SOAP in ASP.NET's support for Web services. ASP.NET Web services are the preferred way for Web developers to expose Web services on the Internet. The goal is quick, easy, and high-performing SOAP services. We will look at how to use the SOAP extension classes to create some very interesting applications on top of the core SO... (more)

.NET Remoting Essentials

Microsoft .NET Remoting is the .NET technology that allows you to easily and quickly build distributed applications. All of the application components can be on one computer or they can be on multiple computers around the world. .NET Remoting allows client applications to use objects in other processes on the same computer or on any other computer to which it can connect over its network... (more)

Introducing Microsoft InfoPath 2003 Part 2

In Part 1 of this article (XML-J, Vol. 4, issue 6) we looked at creating a solution that used a new product in the Microsoft Office System 2003 called InfoPath. In this installment, I'll show you how to extend the solution created in Part 1 using BizTalk Server 2004. In Part 1, we created a form that collected new patient information for a health care customer. Once we completed the initi... (more)

Introducing ASP 2.0 Master Pages

While meeting with the development staff of a local company we began discussing a project that the CIO had assigned them earlier that morning. The project was actually the first in a series of about 15 planned Web sites scheduled over the next year. Each site was designed to expose sales and marketing collateral to their international reseller community. Their lead developer explained th... (more)