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Sometimes when you have a clean install of Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 the context menu item "Edit WCF Configuration" for a app.config or web.config will not show. The picture above does show the menu item I'm talking about, but you may find that it is not there. Help is at hand: there is...
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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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The 15th episode of the Dutch .NET Magazine has dropped in the mailbox at Class-A just a moment ago. Inside are many great articles. There is also an article (I dare not say "one of them") written by Stefan Onderstal from Qurius and myself. The article focusses on the problem of the default use of the...
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You read it right. There is a very cheap way to shield exception information from an ASP.NET web service. Mind you, this is available only from ASP.NET 2.0 (and upwards presumably). So, what is exception shielding for web services? Preventing potentially valuable exception information from leaking to...
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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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When you add a Web Reference to your project, Visual Studio will also import all schema types defined in the WSDL’s schema section. You can create a schema importer extension (SIE) to influence the way the XSD schema types are mapped to your CLR types. There is a very nice article by Jelle Druyts...
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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...