List of Exercises

Chapter 1: Creating and Managing Windows Services

Exercise 1.1: Using the Service Control Manager

Exercise 1.2: Creating a Windows Service by Using Visual Studio .NET

Exercise 1.3: Debugging a Windows Service

Exercise 1.4: Trying the ServiceController Demo Project

Exercise 1.5: Uninstalling and Modifying CustomLogService

Chapter 2: Creating and Managing Serviced Components

Exercise 2.1: Creating a Serviced Component

Exercise 2.2: Creating a Client That Calls Methods of the Serviced Component

Exercise 2.3: Creating a COM Component by Using Visual Studio .NET

Exercise 2.4: Referencing a COM Component in Visual Studio .NET

Chapter 3: Creating and Managing .NET Remoting Objects

Exercise 3.1: Creating the Server and Interface DLLs

Exercise 3.2: Creating the Host

Exercise 3.3: Creating the Client

Exercise 3.4: Using a Singleton Remote Object

Chapter 4: Creating and Managing XML Web Services

Exercise 4.1: Creating and Testing a Simple XML Web Service

Exercise 4.2: Using an XML Web Service from a Windows Application

Exercise 4.3: Using an XML Web Service from an ASP.NET Web Application

Exercise 4.4: Calling an XML Web Service Method Asynchronously

Exercise 4.5: Using Customized SOAP Headers

Chapter 5: Working with the .NET Data Providers

Exercise 5.1: Using Connection, Command, and DataReader Objects

Exercise 5.2: Using Queries That Don’t Return Rows

Exercise 5.3: Creating and Calling Stored Procedures

Exercise 5.4: Accessing Multiple Resultsets

Exercise 5.5: Adding Error Handling

Chapter 6: Working with the DataSet

Exercise 6.1: Creating the DataSet and Updating the Database

Exercise 6.2: Testing DataExceptions

Exercise 6.3: Sorting and Filtering with the DataView and DataViewManager

Exercise 6.4: Using a DataRelation and Creating a ChildView

Exercise 6.5: Creating a Typed DataSet and Using Visual Studio .NET Components

Chapter 7: Working With XML Data

Exercise 7.1: Writing DataSet Data to an XML File

Exercise 7.2: Reading XML Data into a DataSet

Exercise 7.3: Creating DiffGram Output

Exercise 7.4: Using the XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter

Exercise 7.5: XML DOM Programming

Exercise 7.6: Using XPath Expressions and the XPathNavigator

Exercise 7.7: Validating with the XmlValidatingReader and XSD Schema

Exercise 7.8: Displaying XML Data as HTML

Exercise 7.9: Using SqlCommand.ExecuteXmlReader

Chapter 8: Testing and Debugging

Exercise 8.1: Setting Conditional Breakpoints and Using the Debugging Tools

Exercise 8.2: Instrumenting Your Application with Tracing

Exercise 8.3: Using SOAP Extensions to Log SOAP Messages to a File

Chapter 9: Overview of Security Concepts

Exercise 9.1: Using CLR Role-Based Security

Exercise 9.2: Using Code-Access Security

Chapter 10: Deploying, Securing, and Configuring Windows-Based Applications

Exercise 10.1: Creating and Exploring a Windows Setup Project in Visual Studio .NET

Exercise 10.2: Installing a Windows Service

Exercise 10.3: Creating a Windows Installer Project to Install the Service

Exercise 10.4: Deploying a Serviced Component by Using Dynamic Registration

Exercise 10.5: Using regsvcs.exe and the RegistrationHelper Class

Exercise 10.6: Creating a Windows Installer File with the Component Services Tool

Exercise 10.7: Exporting a Proxy

Exercise 10.8: Deploying a .NET Remoting Object in Internet Information Server

Exercise 10.9: Using regasm and the Registry Editor in a Windows Installer Project

Exercise 10.10: Installing an Assembly in the Global Assembly Cache

Exercise 10.11: Configuring Serviced Components to Use Role-Based Security

Chapter 11: Deploying and Securing XML Web Services

Exercise 11.1: Creating a Setup Program

Exercise 11.2: Using Custom SOAP Headers for Authentication

Exercise 11.3: Implementing File-Based Authorization