Web Services

In this video I’m back on the Advanta campus chatting with Michael Merz, Program Manager for Application Integration Framework (AIF) on the Dynamics AX team. AIF is a standards-based framework that allows you to publish and consume web services.  It’s used primarily in integration…

Application Integration Framework (AIF) enables companies to integrate Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and communicate with external business processes and partners through the exchange of XML over various transport media. AIF enables both business-to-business and  application-to-application…

With the Windows Web Services API (WWSAPI), you can connect your C/C++ client applications with web services. You can also create C/C++ server-side web service end-points. WWSAPI is new with Windows 7 (client) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (server). WWSAPI is also back-ported to all…

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…

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…

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…

  Do you have a Facebook account and want to do more with it? Start creating cool, fun Windows applications and Web sites with the Facebook Developer Toolkit. This toolkit offers you a huge amount of easy-to-use components and controls, plus ready-to-run samples and detailed documentation…

This episode features Jim Gray. He is a "Technical Fellow" in the Scaleable Servers Research Group (Sky Server, Terra Server) and manager of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC). Jim has been called a "giant" in the fields of database and transaction processing…

One of the cool new features of ASP.NET 2.0 is its rich declarative databinding. In addition to traditional techniques like databinding to a back-end SQL database, you can also databind to web services, using the ObjectDataSource.In this DevNugget, Mid-Atlantic .net Developer Evangelist G. Andrew…

With Windows Web Services, you can create applications that communicate easily with a local computer or a remote Web service. Windows Web Services is a native-code implementation of SOAP and provides core network communication by supporting a broad set of the Web services (WS) family of…