problem with using webservices

Question

User-9833593 posted

Hi chums,

These days I am going to learn web services from beginning in details and I have searched  umpteen times for this purpose but there were few books and other resources about this and I do not know which one is more useful and the intresting thing was that all of them were published 5 or 6 years ago and I am in doubt that is learning webservices useful at all now a days, if so, please help me to find good and helpful book in terms of web services ?

Answer 1

User1546878023 posted

If you are using .net you should look into WCF instead of webservices, since that is the next step after webservices

 

Amazon provides a lot af books on that

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=wcf&x=0&y=0

Answer 2

User-9833593 posted

Hi ,

Thanks to you but could you please introduce me that which book is better  with the better source code?

for instanse I am a fan of asp.net Unleashed by stephen walter because it covers everything in detail and has a good source code.

Answer 3

User1546878023 posted

I haven't read these books, but based on author books I have read, then I would choose either

 

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Communication-Foundation-Developer/dp/0735623368/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1301255793&sr=8-15

 

or

 

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-WCF-Communication-Foundation-Programmer/dp/0470563141/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1301255793&sr=8-3

 

but it is only a recommendation based on other books and not the ones in question

Answer 4

User-9833593 posted

Thanks,

The last question can I use wcf in web or it is for desktop application?(I ask this because the title starts with windows ...)

Answer 5

User1546878023 posted

That's the beauty with wcf that it can be used with both windows and web apps, as opposed to webservices which where focused on web apps (again I cannot assure you that the books will solve your needs as I have not read them myself)

Answer 6

User954927490 posted

Hi
learning webservices is always. It will take only 3-4 days for you to lrearn websirvice .
after that  u can go for wcf..

Answer 7

User-9833593 posted

Thanks Dahla and hi vishwaraj1

First thanks to you for participating in this post then if webservice is always why there is no new published book for them and is wcf used as an alternative of webservice or are they different from each other?(I want to khnow why you suggest both of them)

thanks beforehand 

Answer 8

User954927490 posted

HI I am suggesting you to learn webservice because

1. it will not take much time to learn

2. sometime you may need to work on old application in which you may be u have to work on webservice.

 

Answer 9

User954927490 posted

HI Dalha,
u can also use webservice with both windoiw and web application.
i have used webservice with both window and web application.

Answer 10

User1546878023 posted

@vishwaraj1

 

You can consume a webservice using both a windows app or some website, but using wcf you can expose the webservice logic that you can create as i.e. a remoting service using simple configuration logic. 

 

So in short wcf simply builds upon the regular the webservice logic and adds more features. So off course you look at webserivces first, then it will provide some grounding, but wcf should cover that ground + more

Answer 11

User954927490 posted

@Dalha

yes that's why I was saying  that first read some webservice and when have some idea about then next we can go for WCF.