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Auto Generate Web Service Proxy With Intellisense Support

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:03:40 GMT

Here is sample bits of my work that auto generates a web service proxy into an assembly with a BuildProvider implementation. It's a protoype, the rest could be implemented in your own way but it is surely working as it is (i won't develop it further). Once it is built, the c# code wrapper of web service description generated and compiled into memory (infact into an assembly in asp.net temp directory), so you can use intellisense support of Visual Studio.

My favorite interview questions

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:31:03 GMT

These are some of the questions that I ask when I'm interviewing a new applicant for a developer position.

JSON in ASP.NET Ajax: Part 2. Calling a JSON Service from client code

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:31:05 GMT

In this follow-up we'll build upon what we learned in the previous article, and write a simple AJAX application that calls a JSON Web Service asynchronously and displays the result with a callback. We'll leverage the ASP.NET AJAX client library to avoid writing all the needed "plumbing" code and we'll see how to bridge a remote web service using a local proxy.

Are you making these 3 common ASP.NET AJAX mistakes?

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

An overview of the impact several ASP.NET page life cycle issues have on ASP.NET AJAX development, and how to avoid them.

Convert street address to longitude and latitude via web service

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:46:04 GMT

Demonstrates how to convert a street address to a geographic position in longitude and latitude coordinates by using a free REST web service provided by GeoCoder.us. Web service only works for addresses within the United States due to the source (US census) data.

Mocking a Web Service Proxy

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:01:02 GMT

A simple howto for mocking a web service proxy class.

Video: Creating Web Services with the .NET Framework

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:16:01 GMT

The video discusses how to create a Web Service from scratch using the .NET framework and also discusses some of the pros and cons that you should know about.