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Enhanced by a series of step-by-step lessons and hands-on exercises, this helpful tutorial explains how to write and implement XML Web services for Microsoft .NET, with instruction designed to help users apply knowledge of C#, Microsoft Visual Basic, and other object-oriented programming languages to XML Web services development. Original. (Advanced) (view table of contents)

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