Web Services

ISV Summer Campaign : Leveraging the Web The holidays are just about to end, but there's still time to boost your knowledge or learn something totally new.Durint these 2 weeks we'll be giving the fourth and final topic of this summer issue their place in the sun, namely the Web and the web browser.…

Web applications increasingly integrate third-party services. The integration introduces new security challenges due to the complexity for an application to coordinate its internal states with those of the component services and the web client across the Internet. In this paper, we study the…

Taking user feedback about the application into consideration, it’s time to make some improvements! J Here are some of the reports we got from the users: The application is too slow when exchanging currencies It uses too much data traffic/should cache the exchange rates It doesn’t work for some…

John Mulhausen takes you from from zero to an Azure-hosted, push notification-sending web service and an accompanying phone app in 19 minutes. 1) Do you want to see how to send/receive every kind of Push Notification that there is for Windows Phone? 2) Do you want to know the certification…

The purpose of this article is to show how you can make your very own, very simple Currency Converter application for Windows Phone 7, using Bing to make all the hard exchanging work! IntroductionMicrosoft has done an absolutely amazing job with the Windows Phone 7, giving each and every one of us…

Many business applications have a significant code base responsible for back end business processes and activities that are both hard to write and even more challenging to manage. With Web Services being the primary way to expose and consume business logic, building services, coordinating services…

Launched in January 2009, Stonehenge is designed to provide a public forum to test the interoperability of WS-* protocols on different technical stacks and to build sample applications that could provide best practices and coding guidelines for better interoperability.Customers get working code on…

Ralf Beckers is a software developer at the Microsoft Embedded Systems Development Center (MESDC) in Aachen, Germany.  In this video, Ralf provides a short introduction to the MESDC and then dives into a discussion of the “Web Services on Devices” stack for Windows Embedded Standard 2009.…

Just posted the updated source code to TweetCraft 2.0.  Head over to http://tweetcraft.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets to check it out.

If you like twitter and World of Warcraft, check out the Coding4Fun project, TweetCraft.  Version 2.0 brings some new features and bug fixes. Bug fixes Fixed: Twitter connection and authentication issues Removed: The Windows pop-up messages whenever Twitter's service goes down. You can…