XML WebServices and SOAP

This book covers the topics of XML Web Services and the Simple Object Access Protocol, SOAP.You must have sufficient knowledge of C# and ASP.Net, before going thru this book. It contains step by step approach by telling how to create a webservice by covering the WSDL, SOAP and UDDI topics.

Requirements:

The software requirements to successfully run all the programs in this book are
•Operating System - Windows 2000
•Microsoft IIS ver 5.0
•SQLServer 2000 (Evaluation Edition)
•Internet Explorer 5.5
•.Net Framework SDK Beta 2 (111 MB)
•Soap Toolkit 2.0

Internet Explorer 5.5 can be downloaded off the Microsoft site
•http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/ie55sp1.htm

Net Framework SDK Beta 2 can be downloaded off the Microsoft site
•http://download.microsoft.com/download/VisualStudioNET/Trial/2.0/W982KMeXP/EN-US/setup.exe

Alternatively, you can visit the download section at Microsoft ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp ) and download the .Net framework SDK Beta 2 under the Software Development Kit option.

Soap Toolkit 2.0
The Soap Toolkit 2.0, approx. 1.44 mb, can be downloaded from the Microsoft site
•http://download.microsoft.com/download/xml/soap/2.0/W98NT42KMe/EN-US/SoapToolkit20.exe

SQLServer 2000

While installing the evaluation edition of SQLServer 2000, we have chosen the default selected settings. The only modification made is in the Authentication Dialog Box.
You see two options
•Windows Authentication mode
.Mixed mode (Windows Authentication and SQL Server Mode)

The default option selected is Windows Authentication mode. We have instead selected Mixed mode (Windows Authentication and SQL Server Mode). Once this option is selected, the password text boxes for the 'sa' user gets activated. As we would prefer using a blank password in our programs, we select Blank Password. On selecting this option, the text boxes get disabled again.

Once the database server is installed and started, you will have to Install the .NET Framework Samples Database. To do so, click on Start->Programs-> Microsoft .NET Framework SDK-> Samples and QuickStart Tutorials. Follow the instructions given in this html file to install all the samples that come with the SDK.