Consuming Web Services

This is a continuation from the post on Web Services. To read the first part, click here. In the last post, I introduced Web Services to you. We created a service named ForexService that has one operation that accepts two input currencies as strings and returns the exchange rate as double. To consume the web service, let’s create a separate application (note that it can be any type of application, windows or web). This application will act as a...

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Introducing Web Services

I talked about WCF in brief in one of my earlier postings, but that brought forward a need for a posting on the basics of web services. So, today I am going to talk about web services at a simpler level using a scenario about foreign exchange rates. I am not talking about forex process and it’s just for example’s sake…so don’t post back saying forex rates are not decided that way! ;-) The central bank in the country decides the forex rate for every...

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Microsoft is going the jQuery way

With jQuery gaining popularity day by day and Microsoft extending support towards it through its Visual Studio IDE, it looks like the future in ASP.NET is going to rely heavily on jQuery. Before I move forward with the integration part which is the actual topic of this blog, let me give you an idea on what jQuery is. If you don't know about jQuery yet or have not followed it recently, you must now. Use of jQuery is getting serious not only with .NET...

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