.NET and XML

by Niel M. Bornstein

If you're seeking ways to build network-based applications or XML-based web services, Microsoft provides most of the tools you'll need. XML is integrated into the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, but if you want to get a grasp on how .NET and XML actually work together, that's a different story. With .NET & XML , you can get under the hood to see how the .NET Framework implements XML, giving you the skills to write understandable XML-based code that interoperates with code written with other tools, and even other languages. .NET & XML starts by introducing XML and the .NET Framework, and then teaches you how to read and write XML before moving on to complex methods for manipulating, navigating, transforming, and constraining it. To demonstrate the power of XML in .NET, author Niel Bornstein builds a simple hardware store inventory system throughout the book. As you move from chapter to chapter, you'll absorb increasingly complex information until you have enough knowledge to successfully program your own XML-based applications. This tutorial also contains a quick reference to the API, plus appendices present additional .NET assemblies that you can use to work with XML, and how to work with the .NET XML configuration file format. One study puts the potential market for new software based on XML at or near $100 billion over the next five years. The .NET Framework gives you a way to become a part of it. But to use XML and .NET effectively, you need to understand how these two technologies work together. This book gives you the insight to take full advantage of the power the two provide.

472 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2003

About the author

Niel Bornstein specializes in helping companies derive value from open source software. ​

A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology and a Master of Science in Management, he spent 15 years designing and developing corporate and commercial client-server, N-tier, and web-hosted applications, in an impressively random assortment of industries before moving to consulting, product management, and sales engineering. Niel is an occasional conference speaker and author of the books .NET and XML and Mono: A Developer's Notebook as well as a number of articles for the O'Reilly Network.​

Niel lives in Marietta, Georgia, with his wife, two children, a rotating array of animals (at one time or another including dogs, cats, small mammals, birds, reptiles, and fishes), and a few glowing boxes with blinking lights.

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