Publisher's Synopsis
Traditional Enterprise Application development is dead. The n-tier model for development is outmoded and general concensus has it that the new way forward is to design large-scale applications to make use of web services. What makes this such an interesting proposition is that once a generic web service has been written it is available for anyone's application to make use of it. It's just a question of discovering and registering what each service does.;Microsoft's Hailstorm is a suite of web services that takes Microsoft's already established passport personalization technology and translates it into the new paradigm for use on its .NET platform. This book serves to introduce Hailstorm and cover its integration into applications using ASP.NET, VB.NET, C# and a generic XML approach.;This book is aimed at the early .NET developer already working on the .NET platform even though it is only a beta 2 release itself. It assumes some knowledge of basic web service technology (WSDL, UDDI) and the various .NET languages where appropriate.
