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The WCF "Orcas" release (the WCF from .NET Framework 3.5 aka WCF 2.0) makes it so much easier to use your WCF service in conjunction with ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as 'Atlas'). Before Orcas you would build a AJAX enabled (web) service by adding the [ScriptService] attribute to the service...
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A couple of weeks ago I was invited to participate in the IT-Boxing event that took place last thursday, March 6th in Sofia, Bulgaria. The IT-Boxing event is a one-night competition, organized by the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD), in which a couple of teams battle to be the best...
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It seems like almost everybody (including myself) was having big trouble getting a comment into my weblog. The main culprit was the CAPTCHA control that I found on the MSDN site and have been using since. It resulted not only in a lot of user unfriendliness, but also a lot of runtime errors (memory corruption...
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Part 1 left us able to call web services that are local. In part 2 we will take a look at web services that are remote to our own website that hosts the Atlas enabled page. Seems like a trivial thing to do. I mean, it’s “just” a soap call over HTTP, right? The challenge lies in the...
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The March and May 2006 CTP’s of Atlas introduced two formal ways to call web services from a web browser. The difference is in the location of the web services. Local web services Remote or external web services Atlas makes it really easy to call web services when they are local, i.e. reside in...