Programming Microsoft .NET XML Web Services | Programming MicrosoftВ® .NET XML Web Services (Pro-Developer)

Damien Foggon, Daniel Maharry, Chris Ullman, and Karli Watson.

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Foggon, Damien.

Programming Microsoft .NET XML Web Services / Damien Foggon, Daniel Maharry, Chris Ullman, and Karli Watson.p. cm.

Includes index. ISBN 0-7356-1912-31. Microsoft .NET. 2. XML (Document markup language) 3. Internet Programming. I. Maharry, Daniel. II. Ullman, Chris. III. Title.

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Acknowledgments

Damien Foggon

So many people and so little space.

Thanks to Dan for bringing this up—even if he was wearing a very loud Hawaiian shirt at the time—and to Chris for having a computer that breaks down more than mine does. Thanks to Anne and Kathleen for giving us this opportunity to write a book and for not screaming and shouting too much when we missed deadlines.

Thanks to Mum who asked for nothing but gave everything. To Granddad. To Jill, even if she did get to see New Kids on the Block before I got to see Iron Maiden. To the lads for being around when I needed to let off steam. And finally to Gran—for love and support in everything I ever did. Always missed.

Dan Maharry

Thanks to Chris and Damien for keeping up, Anne and Kathleen for trusting three guys who hadn’t a clue when they started, James and Niels for their wisdom, Karli for bailing Chris out, Aaron and Simon for their knowledge, DaveB for saying no, DaveS for saying yes, the house for putting up with me, and finally, the makers of Red Bull.

Big hugs to Jane and my family.

All chapters were planned and written at an altitude of about 20 feet. To understand the panic inherent in writing a book on a subject you know nothing about to begin with, check out http://www.hmobius.com/blog. The second edition will be even better. Contact Dan at danm@hmobius.com.

Chris Ullman

Thanks to Dan and Damien for making this happen, to Anne and Kathleen for still believing it would happen even when nothing was appearing weeks after we said it would, to Karli for picking up the slack I left, to Donnie for making this consumable by fellow developers and other human beings, and last to my wife, Kate, for keeping me calm, rational, and focused enough to complete it.

Karli Watson

Thanks, always, to Donna.

Damien Foggon

Damien is a Web developer based in Newcastle (the Upon one not the Under one). After working for BT, he decided that big companies weren’t for him and went to work for a dotcom at the end of the boom. After that enterprise went pear-shaped, he mucked around, reviewed a lot of books, cofounded Thing-E Ltd.—a Web development company based in London, and then decided that it was time to get a proper job. After two years of working his own hours, he finds it exceedingly difficult to get out of bed to start work on a morning, but it makes the weekends all the more pleasant.

Damien can be found online at http://www.littlepond.co.uk, but watch out for the big fish!

Daniel Maharry

Daniel Maharry is a freelance writer and editor who has, in no particular order, taught English, maths, and guitar; directed, crewed, acted in, and produced a few plays and short films; been a film and music columnist for four years; cofounded two Web sites (COMDeveloper.com and ASPToday.com); rewritten his own Web site several times (HMobius.com); opened an office in India; variously edited, reviewed and written pieces of more than 40 programming books; qualified as a sound engineer; and consumed enough caffeine in his lifetime to keep most of China awake for a week.

Occasionally, he sleeps. Sometimes.

Chris Ullman

Chris Ullman is a freelance Web developer and technical author, who has spent many years stewing in ASP/ ASP.NET like a teabag left too long in the pot. Coming from a computer science background, he started as a UNIX/Linux guru, who gravitated toward Microsoft during the summer of ASP (1997). He cut his teeth on Wrox Press ASP guides, and since then he has written more than 20 books, most notably as lead author for Wrox’s bestselling Beginning ASP/ASP.NET series. He also has contributed chapters to books on PHP, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Web Services, C#, XML, and other Internet-related technologies too esoteric to mention, now swallowed up in the quicksands of the dotcom boom.

Quitting Wrox in August 2001, he branched out into Visual Basic 6 programming and ASP development, maintaining a multitude of sites from http://www.cuasp.co.uk, his “work” site, to http://www.atomicwise.com, a selection of his writings on music and art. He now divides his time between being a human punchbag for his 20-month-old son Nye, playing keyboards in a psychedelic band, The Bee Men, and tutoring his cats in the art of peaceful coexistence, wherein they refrain from violently mugging each other on the stairs.

Karli Watson

Karli Watson is a freelance IT specialist, author, developer, and consultant. For the most part, he indulges in .NET and related technologies and has written numerous books about these. Occasionally, though, he has been known to cross the dark divide into the realm of WAP and Flash. In endeavors other than his technical writing, Karli is in the process of trying to get his first novel published, which doesn’t have any computers in it at all. Karli is also a snowboarding enthusiast, although a bad landing resulted in ongoing back trouble. He is counting the days until he breaks through the critical fitness barrier and hits the powder once again.

If Karli ever appeared in a “Where’s Waldo” picture, he’d be the one wearing brightly coloured clothes and eating a cheese fondue.