Professional ASP.NET 1.0 XML with C#

I've purchased several book books on XML, both in the ASP and ASP.NET environments. They typically wanted you to know everything about XML for its own sake. Well I don't care to learn everything there is to know about XML; I want to know how to use it as part of the ASP.NET arsenal to write better applications. This book does just that. It moves very fast and delivers a very practical how-to guide on using XML in your ASP.NET workday. Wrox at its best! XML has a central role in the .NET Framework. ASP.NET developers, therefore, need to know how to capitalize on it and its related technologies, so that they can efficiently read, write, filter, merge, and display XML data in web applications. ASP.NET can handle XML from a wide range of sources, from local XML files to relational databases on remote servers. In this book, we'll examine how to access these sources, apply transformations to the data once we have it, and render that data for display. We'll also look at how to analyze the performance of our XML web applications to eliminate bottlenecks. Finally, we try out some of what we've learned in an e-commerce case study. As ASP.NET becomes more widely adopted there is an increasing need for content that goes beyond broad overviews of this exciting new technology. This book concentrates on describing how XML can be effectively used within ASP.NET applications. Coverage includes discussion of where and when to use XML, detailed discussion of the System.XML namespace, ADO.NET as it relates to ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000 and SQLXML managed classes, and XSLT. Furthermore the book specifically spends time highlighting new developments in XML related standards and technologies, and performance issues that the advanced ASP.NET developer should be aware of.