Foreword by Keith Ballinger

You are holding in your hands my favorite book on Web services and .NET. Yasser has done an outstanding job of pulling together an intelligent and well-thought-out book that provides you with tons of practical information about Web services.

One of the things that always used to frustrate me when I read a Web services book that cost more than five dollars was the apparent inexperience of the author, which became clear after a month of trying to implement his suggestions. You know what I'm talking about: wrong information about APIs, bone-headed architectural recommendations that would never perform well, and sample code that is a security hole. All that's the hard stuff.

With Yasser's book, I don't think you'll spend ...

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