What are the best recources for learning .NET webservices?

Question

I'd like to get up to speed on web services--

I've found that I really like the video format; I tend to skim when I'm reading (bad habit) and I generally don't get the full value out of the video. I would like to see any kind of good resource that you can recommend though; the best thing to do is to collect the best resources.

Answer 1

Channel9 is a good place to start. Also, the Mix sites will be worth a look.

Answer 2

The WCF Developer Center on MSDN is a good place to start.

Be sure to stay away from ASMX web services and WSE web services. They are old and obsolete, respectively.

Answer 3

You could check out the following tutorial:

http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/webservices/

I would also recommend learning more about web development and data access layers and since you said that the majority of your experience is on the desktop side.

Answer 4

Here are some good starts

• http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/video-280.aspx
• http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showNum=33
• http://www.pnpguidance.net/Screencast/DayOfPatternsPracticesScreencastWCSFAJAXDynamicDataMVCFramework.aspx
• http://www.pnpguidance.net/Screencast/CreateDataAccessLayerUsingDataAccessGuidancePackageScreencast.aspx

if you like screen cast these are the places to start looking, also look at http://www.dimecasts.net/, but they didn't have any on web services

Answer 5

If you want to check out the WCF webservice world (and I would definitely recommend that), go check out Aaron Skonnard's many-parts intro at "Endpoint TV" on Channel9:

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/

He has a lot of intro screencast tutorials from very basic to fairly advanced, he covers all of WCF, even the latest greatest REST interfaces and stuff - highly recommended!

Marc