Update:

14-02-2021, the book's website http://www.learnxmlws.com/book/ no longer provides a free access. We switched the download link to the book's webpage at O'Reilly.

Book excerpts:

There's no doubt that the Web was a catalyst for a revolution that changed the lives of software developers and end users alike. Web services provide the foundation for another profound revolution in the way we build and use applications.

This book aims to to give you the information and insight you need to design and build next generation distributed interoperable applications with Web services.

Coverage of Web services in this book is divided in two sections: The first four chapters explain the architectural foundation on which Web services are built. The remaining eight chapters explain the tools you use to build Web services including the SOAP toolkit and the .NET framework.

This book is intended for experienced developers who have little or now experience with Web services. The book assumes you have programmed with VB 6, classic ASP, and VB .NET. It assumes you understand the fundamentals of Web application development and have a basic understanding of XML documents and the XML Document Object Model (XML DOM). This book is not for developers who have no .NET knowledge or experience.