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Market_Desc: · Experienced ASP.NET 2.0 and 1.X developers.· Experienced XML developers adding ASP.NET skills to their abilities.· Experienced programmers will find that many of their current skills are replaced by new built in functions. To continue finding work, these developers will need to master the new built-in functions and learn new and more advanced techniques that aren't already built-in.<p>Special Features: · Wrox!· Previous Wrox ASP and XML title was a strong seller. ASP.NET 2.0 and 75% spending growth on XML services implementation in 2005 will drive renewed development for ASP.NET 2.0 and XML that was not seen on ASP.NET 1.· .NET acceptance is growing, with over 1,000,000 current ASP.NET programmers and version 1 skepticism is no longer an issue· XML is hugely useful in conjunction with ASP.NET. Developers can use it for displaying data from an infinite variety of sources (databases, PDF, Word, and Excel documents, etc) in their ASP.NET web sites· With many new built-in functions in ASP.NET 2.0, XML usage is one of the areas experienced developers will delve into deeper to increase their usefulness· The author has a strong online and print article presence as an expert in these technologies<p>About The Book: This book focuses on many aspects of XML and shows how it can be used by ASP.NET developers to increase application efficiency and reach. This includes discussing the different XML standards and a quick rundown on ASP.NET 2.0. After the basics are covered, the book delves into different ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET. The book also includes 2 major case studies:Using XML Web Services and XML Serialization in an airline reservation system and Using various ASP.NET XML Features in an online shopping deals publishing application.