The exodus from Visual Studio 6.0 to .NET has begun for most developers. But with this new coding model comes decoupled services in the form of Web services. However, if you still have to maintain and ...

What is the Data Directory? There are times when sensitive information, such as database connection strings, may need to be available for a web site to use, but that you would never want a visitor to ...

CAS is the Central Authentication Service offered by the Identity and Access Management team within Purdue System Security (PSS). Unlike web server assisted authentication and authorization, it ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...

This week I'll cover how you can use ASP.NET AJAX to consume .NET Web services that have been marked with the ScriptServiceAttribute class. By using Web services, you can significantly minimize ...

Notice that ScriptManager can't generate a client-side proxy object that can be used to call the remote service? Dan shows you the workaround. It's amazing how much data is accessible through Web ...