Description of how a webhook works from http://webhooks.pbwiki.com/ - How do they work? By letting the user specify a URL for various events, the application will POST data to those URLs when the events occur...Among other things, you can: create notifications to you or anybody via email, IRC, Jabber, ... put the data ...
Hello All, I'm beginning a project right now that will require a pretty extensive web back end. Of the different calling conventions, we have found that the easier and more cost effective approach is to build a standard SOAP web service. So now, we are in the process of looking at the different web service frameworks in order to deter...
Can anyone tell me why when I create a new web service in an asp.net project does it tell me that the host is 0.0.0.0? This is also disallowing me to test the webservice because its coming from a different IP than the host (obviously not 0.0.0.0). What the hell is going on? What did I configure wrongly? ...
I need to access a Web-svc, run a bunch of queries and save the data to a store as part of an analysis. On top of this, there is a web-site that will query the datastore and show this data. We have features like this getiing added every month. How can I reduce the amount of boilerplate code that get's written. Add web svc ref Wrap met...
Hello everybody. Following on from my previous question [link text][1] , I have a new problem. I have a WPF application that will call a webservice. This web service will be called asynchronously by pushing the 'GO' button. The results may take 30 seconds or so to come back. The issue is that I want the users to be able to click the...
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around how to expose my domain objects to the client. Whether I’m using a rich client or I’m using the web, I want to use the MVP and repository patterns. What I’m trying to wrap my head around is how I expose my repository and model, which will be on the server. Is it even possible to expose complex b...
Hi, I have a java webservice which connects to a .Net 2.0 client. I have a requirement to write an equivalent of the Java service in .Net 3.5 WCF. It is desirable to be able to simply plugin in the WCF service without changing the client. After a lot of trial and error (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/efad0851-b...
Hello everyone, I am using C# and created a proxy from a ASP.Net asmx Web Service at client side, by using Add Web Reference... feature of VSTS 2008. And I am using the asynchronous method call model (i.e. call the AsyncXXX method, which will return immediately) and handles the complete event (I add event handler to handle the complete...
Hi, I am in a situation in which I have to move web applications/web services from one server to another. The applications/services are published and most server names can be modified in the web.config. However I was wondering what happens to the web services who are pointed to the previous server? Will I have to open the project and ...
I need recommendations (books/links) for improving my skills in the following- Web Services ( SOAP and REST based ) Windows Communication Foundation (out of the box and REST based) Windows Workflow Foundation I rate myself as intermediate in web services and almost intermediate in WCF and WF. I would like to know some books/links tha...
When writing a custom channel how can I get the name of the service method that will be called. For example, if the operation contract looks like the following, how can I know if Method1 or Method2 is being called? [OperationContract] void Method1( int data ); [OperationContract] void Method2( int data ); The channel itself doesn't ...
I am building a web based application written in ASP.NET and Flex. One of my biggest challenges is implementing security for the application in a flexible and maintainable way. This challenge is compounded when different technologies are involved. I'll try to describe what I have below. The website is laid out as follows: /mydomain....
I am about to implement a server application that can answer queries fast. The server is implemented in java. I don't want to waste a lot of time on a complicated communication protocol so I search for a good best-practice way of 1) performing a query to my server 2) letting the server answer that query Both the queries and answers w...
I have a WCF service that is behind an enterprise-class firewall, which is doing both hostname and port translation, e.g.: https://ws.address.com/Service.svc --> https://serv.internal.com:44000/Service.svc The service is secured with SSL-128 and requires a client certificate. Because the internal server name is not accessible from out...
i have a web service which contains a method like the following [WebMethod] public string UploadFile(byte[] bytes, string file_name) { } i want to invoke this web service method using HttpWebRequest so that i can stream the file without buffering in memory. How can do it... i tried to invoke it as follows HttpWebRequest hw = ...
Is it safe to switch a .NET 1.1 webservice to a WCF service, knowing that not all clients use .NET to access the service? So they use the SOAP/XML method. Can we switch to WCF without the clients having to change code? ...
I am running a Web Service in C# .NET 3.5. I want to log various calls. However since many users are hitting the same functions at once it is difficult to tell which log call belongs to which. In a C++ life we used a thread Id. What is the equivalent in C#? I have tried System.Diagnostics.Process proc = System.Diagnostics.Process.G...
Using ASP.NET WebServices, by default you can't pass any IDictionary objects, because xml serialization for IDictionaries isn't supported. I have found various ways to serialized dictionaries (http://weblogs.asp.net/pwelter34/archive/2006/05/03/444961.aspx, http://blogs.msdn.com/psheill/archive/2005/04/09/406823.aspx, http://www.mattber...
I'm trying to access a web service secured by a certificate. The security is setup on IIS and the web service is behind it. I don't think WS-SECURITY will do this type of authentication. Is there any way to pass the client certificate when you call the web service? I'm just getting an IIS Error Page that says "The page requires a clien...
I've created the following RESTful WCF service, which works just fine when running it in VS. [OperationContract] [WebGet(ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json, UriTemplate = "/sales/start={start}&end={end}")] List<Sales> GetSalesByDate(string start, string end); However, when deploying this to my test server (running Win2K3 and...