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An Extensive Examination of Web Services: Part 3
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Examines creating a client application that consumes a Web service. Discusses the purpose and structure of a WSDL document, along with creating and using proxy classes to consume a Web service.
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An Extensive Examination of Web Services: Part 5
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Takes an in-depth look at XML serialization, which is the process of converting a data type, such as an integer, array, or custom class, into its XML representation, and back again. Every time a message is passed to or from a Web service, XML serialization transpires.
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An Extensive Examination of Web Services: Part 6
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Looks at sending metadata to a Web method through the use of SOAP headers. Examines defining and accepting a SOAP header on the Web service end, and looks at sending a populated SOAP header from the client.
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Build a Web Service and Create a Consumer
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In this article we will create a guest book web service that will control additions to, and displays from a database table. We will also create a consumer (a regular Web Form) of the web service. The consumer is discussed at the end of the article. Web services look a little strange at first glance
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.NET Web Services I
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Microsoft promoted Web Services a great deal with the launch of .NET. This seems to have faded a little with Web Services perhaps not having taken off as much as was thought. The concept of interoperability over the Internet is still a great one however. In this article we'll quickly review the basi
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.NET Web Services II
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Part II: Customising attributes; Disco and UDDI practicalities and beginning asynchronous Web Services.
Knowledge assumed: VB.NET, VS.NET; .NET Web Service I
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.NET Web Services III
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After reviewing the basics of Web Services in Part I and continuing to look at more advanced specifics in part II, in this article and the next we continue the progression looking at three more advanced Web Service related activities:
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.NET Web Services IV
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After reviewing the basics of Web Services in Part I and continuing to look at more advanced specifics in part II, in the last part we continued the progression looking at the first of the three more advanced Web Service related topics below:
«li»Creating and using SOAP extensions
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Using Forms Authentication with Web Services
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ASP.NET Forms authentication is one of the most flexible way to authenticating users. Typically under such scheme you will have user ids and passwords in some database. You will then present a form to the user that accepts the credentials. Then at server side you check whether the credentials are va
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Windows Authentication with Web Services
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You can enable windows authentication for your web applications using web.config file. You need to set authentication mode to Windows in the <authentication> section. Additionally you need to set <authorization> section to deny anonymous access. Once you set these parameters in the web.config file t
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Web Service Authentication Via SOAP Headers
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While working with web services one of the commonly faced question is - How do I secure my web service? One aspect of security is preventing anonymous access to the web service. This can be done in various ways such as passing user id and password with each web method call. One elegant alternative i
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Handling Timeouts in Web Services
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While developing web applications you should also consider factors like network downtime and server crashes. The same applies to developing web services. When you call a method from your client by default it waits infinitely for the response. This means if server hosting the web service is down then
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Changing Target Web Service At Runtime
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While developing clients for web services, we typically add a web reference to the web service by specifying URL of the .asmx file. Adding a web service in VS.NET generates required proxy object. However, it may happen that after adding the web reference the web service is moved to some other locati
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Developing A Newsletter Subscription Web Service
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Web services offer their functionality over the web via standards like HTTP and XML. There are many models suggested for implementing the business functionality via web services. One of them is subscription based services. Such services allow the users to subscribe or unsubscribe to the service as p
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