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.NET My services (codename Hailstorm) reviews. Messages   Related Types This message was discovered on ASPFriends.com 'ngfx-hailstorm' list. Responses highlighted in red are from those people who are likely to be able to contribute good, authoratitive information to this discussion. They include Microsoft employees, MVP's and others who IMHO contribute well to these kinds of discussions. Phil Winstanley (VIP) Over the past week or so I have been reading two books on .NET My services (codename Hailstorm), and here is my quick brief review of both of them, then some speculation as to what other resources are out there on the subject matter. ######### Early Adopter HailStorm (.NET My Services). ~Dan Maharry, et al. (Who's Al ?) ;) Wrox Press Limited. Paperback - 1 October, 2001. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/186100608X/qid=1007307394/sr=1-2/re f=sr_sp_re/026-1094279-3054019 This book not only gives a good overview of the .NET My services subject but also has allot of background information as to the who, what, where, when and why of the subject. It lets the business people out there know why .NET My Services is a huge opportunity at the same time as being targeted at developers with code samples and introductions to the underlying technologies that do/will support the technology (HSDL and XMI are explained). This book is not the be all and end all of .NET My services and at the moment none of the books out there are. For now this book does a good job and lets people plan ahead. ######### .NET My Services Specification ~Microsoft Press . Microsoft Press International. Paperback - 1 October, 2001. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/073561556X/qid=1007307394/sr=1-1/re f=sr_sp_re/026-1094279-3054019 This book is not for people who want to know "What .NET My Services" is, its a developers companion with about three quarters of the book being code and syntax. This book is currently only of any use to you if you are on the .NET My Services Alpha program (http://www.betaplace.com). The book is the Microsoft .NET My Services Developers Dictionary, with a chapter devoted to the "what", "when" and "why" of the subject and the rest devoted to "how". I would not recommend this book to anyone who wants a background as to what this is, but only those who want to start coding with .NET My Services. ######### There is only one more book on the horizon that I can see and that's: - NET: My Services Essentials ~J. Culbert O'Reilly UK Paperback - 28 February, 2002 Not sure what this will contain or if it will be targeted at developers or architects or what but it's not due out for a long time yet so its pointless speculating. Maybe someone from O'Reilly UK can fill us in? ######### At the moment all you can do with .NET My Services is sign up for the Alpha Program (http://www.betaplace.com), download the .NET My Services SDK - Hailstorm in a box (HSIAB), and play around with the code. The Microsoft Developer site on the matter is here: - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/Default.asp?contentid =28001179 And a few more links that relate to this matter are here: - http://www.asptoday.com/content/articles/20000829.asp?WROXEMPTOKEN=118364Zbl k0brNX4ANDXBEtScz http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/Default.asp?contentid =28001179 http://www.thedotnetmag.com/magazine/online/sg1101/default.asp http://www.asptoday.com/content/articles/20010618.asp?WROXEMPTOKEN=118364Zbl k0brNX4ANDXBEtScz http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article/0,,10693_898911,00.html http://www.ferris.com/rep/200110/SM.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-7319556.html?tag=tp_pr http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/2001_11/online/online_print/lucovskyinterview / http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t274-s2097904,00.html Hth. 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Murphy I have the Microsoft book and as someone who is on the alpha I can say it's pretty much a straight printout of the documentation that ships with the first build of HSIAB. If you're not on the program and you want to start writing code against the service fabric this book is the closest thing you can get. If you think you are going to be working with My Services then the most important things you can do now are start learning the Xml classes in the .NET framework. All of the .NET My Services services are addressed through an XMI interface and all of the service documents are raw XML documents. Knowing how to parse, pull, push, and manipulate Xml are critical to programming this stuff. I can't speak for the other two books, but given the very limited amount of material that exists I would focus less on the service fabric and more on understanding XMI, XML, XPath and WebServices in general. 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