>Hi all,
>
>I just did about two hours of reading recommendations and reviews on Amazon to find a couple of good books on the following two topics.
>1. Web Services with advanced concepts and/ or complex types
>2. ASP Security and / or Web Service Security.
>
>It seems most of the books either have bad reviews, are not current, or out of print. I am at a complete loss as to what books would be the most helpful for my needs.
>
>I am in need to learning to build web services with methods that accept data perhaps xml data and return data. I need good examples and not ones that show how to return an int or a string. If I return a struct type object than I do I need to define this struct on both the web service and the using client type scenarios.
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>I also need a good reference on how to implement security in ASP as well as in Web Services.
>
>Any recommendations would be most excellent. Also if there are any more advanced examples available on the web that I could look at.
>Thanks
>Tim


Tim,

You may wish to look into the WCF. Any book on it will tell you how to create services and there is a ton of information on security included. there are 3 good books on it by: Michele Bustamante, Juval Lowy, and Chris Bowen

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-WCF-Hands-Michele-Bustamante/dp/0596101627
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-WCF-Services-Juval-Lowy/dp/0596526997
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=chris+bowen+wcf

I think you will be better served by learning WCF rather than wasting time on technology that has been replaced.