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Web Services Section Web Services provide an object-model protocol (i.e. DCOM, RMI, IIOP)
independent way of transferring data using HTTP, Simple Object Access
Protocol (SOAP), and XML. Companies can expose business-application
data through a Web server without compromising
enterprise-architecture security. The following articles will help to
better understand, build, and consume Web Services.
In the second article of his series on Indigo web services, Chris Peiris explains how to host an Indigo web service and examines the IIS, self hosting, and Windows Activation Service hosting options. He then provides step-by-step instructions and sample code for an IIS-hosted and self-hosted Indigo web service. [Read This Article][Top]
In the first part of his series on Microsoft Indigo, Chris Peiris examines the basics of SOA, explains how Indigo fits into the picture and the problems it solves. He then introduces Indigo's programming model and finishes by building a sample Indigo web service using the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0. [Read This Article][Top]
Adnan Masood concludes his discussion of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis services and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting services. In the final part, he discusses Reporting Server web services and using custom code in reports. [Read This Article][Top]
This article explains the features of the IE Web service behavior and shows how to asynchronously communicate with an ASP.NET Web service directly from the client. [Read This Article][Top]
Calvin Luttrell shows how to validate e-mail addresses stored in Excel 2003 and
provides a special function for solving that pesky problem Yahoo! mail servers cause. [Read This Article][Top]
This short article describes a quick and easy way to provide some security to an ASP.NET Web service by modifying its associated documentation file. [Read This Article][Top]
Kerberos authentication is the cornerstone of Windows operating system authentication architecture. Web Services Enhancement 2.0 (WSE 2.0) extends Kerberos support to ASP.NET Web services. Chris Peiris explains the support for this new feature in WSE 2.0. [Read This Article][Top]
Chip Irek examines the architectural issues and component design issues of building a .NET application in a service-oriented architecture. [Read This Article][Top]
Thiru Thangarathinam shows how to use asynchronous Web services, Windows
Service applications, server-based timer components and .NET XML API classes to create high-performance, scalable, and flexible applications. [Read This Article][Top]
Part one showed how to transform XML data into HTML by using an XSL stylesheet from within a .NET application. This part explains how to make use of XSLT Extension objects and invoke a C# class method from an XSL stylesheet. [Read This Article][Top]
Learn how to transform XML data into HTML by using an XSL stylesheet from within a .NET application, and then implement a paging solution by declaring and supplying paging parameters to the stylesheet. [Read This Article][Top]
PDC concluded on October 30 and left developers with new horizons to discover and specifications to explore. Adnan Masood sheds some light on Indigo and advanced Web services and explains how they fit into Microsoft's overall integration vision. [Read This Article][Top]
Part one traced the technological evolution of HTTP-based information exchange and ended with Web services. In part two, Adnan Masood continues his examination of Web services and demonstrates their many benefits through a financial-sector scenario. [Read This Article][Top]
Maintain a constant connection to the server and update your client machine with a stream of binary executable over SOAP using XML Web services. [Read This Article][Top]
Rob Chartier demonstrates how to use UDDI to add redundancy to Web services. Since the World Wide Web isn't 100 percent reliable, software needs more than one Web service end point to expose the exact same functionality in case of network or software failure. [Read This Article][Top]
Calvin Luttrell takes e-mail validation to another level by building a .NET Web service that validates a user's e-mail address against the user's e-mail mail server. [Read This Article][Top]
Brian Korzeniowski presents the exciting conclusion to his popular .NET CodeDom trilogy. Learn how to build a Web Service that generates C# source code for creating custom attributes ... and may the source be with you! [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Rob Chartier takes advantage of the Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) specification in the Web Services Enhancements (WSE) to create an application that sends and receives large binary messages within the .NET Web Service environment. [Read This Article][Top]
Create custom attributes and apply them to your own code-generation
application. Also learn how to interrogate the source code at runtime using
reflection. [Read This Article][Top]
Adnan Masood traces the technological evolution of HTTP-based information exchange.
The journey begins with Windows’ Internet Controls and ends with
XML Web services. Learn how the pros and cons of different non-standard HTTP tunneling techniques have shaped current XML Web services
technology. [Read This Article][Top]
This article on serialization in the .NET Framework covers topics such as binary vs. XML and Basic vs. Custom serialization. It concludes with an example of how to add serialization to applications for sending custom objects over the wire with Web services. [Read This Article][Top]
Paul Apostolos continues his series on using Web services and the MSComm32.OCX component to access caller id information from the Web. In part 2, learn how to create a .NET Web service that exposes methods for getting and manipulating the caller id data. [Read This Article][Top]
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol helps companies arrange directory information in a hierarchy. Learn how to build a Web service, using Macromedia, Inc.'s ColdFusion Components, which will access an LDAP server to retrieve search results. [Read This Article][Top]
This case study explores how a fictitious company used existing infrastructure and Web services to cut down on overhead integration time and provide a more robust system to clientele. [Read This Article][Top]
The proliferation of Web Services on the market and their universal acceptance on the Internet makes them more vulnerable to security threats. Therefore, we need to tighten security for our Web Services and pay attention to it. With ASP.NET, Microsoft has provided the necessary features for securing our Web Services and other Web resources. In this article, Mansoor Ahmed Siddiqui explains how to unleash the power of ASP.NET security. [Read This Article][Top]
Rob Chartier continues his exploration of WebControls with an article on how to use XSLT to transform into HTML data returned from his Microsoft Knowledge Base XML Web Service. [Read This Article][Top]
Robert Chartier demonstrates how easy it is to create a Web server control that consumes any Web service. It will simplify integration with other sites and in-house projects. Sometimes, in order to simplify tasks, it's good to encapsulate a set of routines or components into one package. This article covers the basics in order for you to move forward and start creating your own controls. [Read This Article][Top]
Rob Chartier creates a simple portable and reusable address book in .NET to demonstrate the power of N-tier application architecture. Complete source code included! [Read This Article][Top]
Craig Emilio Probus shows us how to build an ASP.NET SOAP test harness, which allows technical and functional personnel to test Web Services under uniform and generic conditions. [Read This Article][Top]
Learn about N-tier application architecture and realize that developing with multiple layers produces a flexible and reusable application for distribution to any number of client interfaces. [Read This Article][Top]
Robert Chartier explains how to use the WSDLReader Component, part of the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit, to automatically read any Web Service and automatically create your client-sided code. This can be a big time saver. [Read This Article][Top]
This is the second part of a two-part series geared to get you quickly started with Web services and the Microsoft Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Toolkit. It will allow you to consume the server that we created in the first part of this article. [Read This Article][Top]
With the Server with the SOAP Toolkit (V2, Gold Release) from Microsoft, you can easily get a Web service on line in minutes. This article will take you through, step by step, the quick and easy way of taking your custom business logic and deploying it as a Web service. [Read This Article][Top]
This is the second article on Web services by Chris Peiris. Learn how to create clients to consume them and learn about the importance of proxy objects and how to create a Web browser, Windows console, and Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) clients using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET. [Read This Article][Top]
This is the first of two articles on Web Services by Chris Peiris. Learn to create a .NET Web Service using C# and examine the Discovery protocol, UDDI, and the future of Web Services. [Read This Article][Top]
