Press Release
January 5, 2004
".NET and XML": Understanding the Code and Markup Behind the Wizards
Sebastopol, CA--The .NET platform provides many of the tools developers
need to build network-based applications with XML. In fact, XML is so
deeply integrated into most of the advanced features that .NET in known
for, such as remoting and web services, that almost every .NET developer
uses XML regularly without giving it much thought. Visual Studio's .NET
wizards make the process painless, but they don't offer much insight into
what takes place under the surface. Developers who would like to use .NET
and XML more effectively need to understand what's going on behind the
wizards. With .NET and XML (O'Reilly, US $39.95) by Niel M. Bornstein,
they'll learn to combine the two technologies to maximum advantage, so
they can write their own code, modify existing code, and address complex
situations directly.
"This book isn't focused on the average developer who just wants to use
Visual Studio .NET to have things done for him," explains Bornstein. "My
reader wants to understand what VS .NET is doing under the covers so he
can write code that he really understands, and have it interoperate with
code written with other tools, even in other languages."
".NET and XML" surveys .NET's many XML features, illustrating how to take
advantage of its capabilities from basic XML parsing to DOM manipulation,
and XSLT processing to web service development. To demonstrate the power
of XML in .NET, the author builds a simple hardware store inventory system
throughout the book. As readers move from chapter to chapter, they absorb
increasingly complex information until they have enough knowledge to
successfully program their own XML-based applications. Examples are
written in C# to demonstrate the .NET interfaces in depth, providing
reusable code samples that developers can readily apply to other situations.
".NET and XML" provides detailed information on:
Reading XML, using the standard XmlReader implementations
Writing XML, using the standard XmlWriter implementations
Reading and writing formats other than XML, by creating custom
XmlReader
and XmlWriter implementations
Manipulating XML, using the Document Object Model (DOM)
Navigating XML, using XPath
Transforming XML, using XSLT
Constraining XML, using W3C XML Schema
Serializing objects to XML, using SOAP and other formats
Using XML with web services
Getting XML into and out of databases with ADO.NET
The book also includes a comprehensive reference to the .NET XML APIs.
Whether developers want to take advantage of the extensive .NET XML
toolkit, or just better understand how .NET supports XML processing, they'll
find the detailed, under-the-hood information they seek in ".NET and XML."
Additional Resources:
.NET and XML
Niel M. Bornstein
ISBN 0-596-00397-8, 455 pages, $39.95 US, $61.95 CA, 28.50 UK
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