List of Sidebars

Chapter 1: Creating and Managing Windows Services

Real World Scenario—Using Windows Services to Monitor a Directory

Chapter 2: Creating and Managing Serviced Components

The History of Component Services

Real World Scenario—Using Queued Components and Transactions

ACID

Chapter 3: Creating and Managing .NET Remoting Objects

Real World Scenario—Distributed Applications

Chapter 4: Creating and Managing XML Web Services

Real World Scenario—Google Web Services Interface

Chapter 5: Working with the .NET Data Providers

Real World Scenario—Security Considerations—Blank Passwords and SQL Injection Attacks

Chapter 6: Working with the DataSet

Real World Scenario—DataSet versus DataReader

Chapter 7: Working With XML Data

Real World Scenario—XML for Application Integration

Chapter 8: Testing and Debugging

Real World Scenario—FxCop: Enforcing Coding Standards

Chapter 9: Overview of Security Concepts

Real World Scenario—Declarative Permissions, Classes, and Methods

Real World Scenario—Developing under the Administrator Account

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

Real World Scenario—Hosting .NET Remoting Objects in IIS

Real World Scenario—Using Versioning in .NET

Chapter 11: Deploying and Securing XML Web Services

Selectively Encrypting Portions of the SOAP Message