Building XML Web Services for the Microsoft .NET Platform

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Short, Scott.

           Building XML Web Services for the Microsoft .NET Platform / Scott Short.

                  p. cm.

           Includes index.

           ISBN 0-7356-1406-7

           1.  Web site development.   2.  Microsoft .net framework.   I.  Title.

TK5105.888 .S495    2002

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