ObjectSharp

As you might have guessed from the name of my blog, I have a long-term love of distributed applications. My infatuation with the technology actually goes back to earlier forms of COM+ and Web services. I believe that a well designed distributed application can be used to address the scalability, reliability and even identity issues that ...

While working on getting a Java Web service and a .NET Web service client to talk to one another, I ran into an interesting situation. The problem had to do with the WSDL being produced by the Java service. Actually, the entire process involved the following steps: An interface written in C# was used to generate a WSDL file. That WSDL file was ...

If you weren’t aware, the version of WSE 3.0 built against the release version of Visual Studio was released on the Nov 7. I’m sure that it would have received launch parties and wide mention in blogs were it not for the conflicting launch of Visual Studio .NET, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006. :) If you did any work with the CTP ...

The rumours have been swirling. Now the truth is out. On Sat. Jan 14, there will be a Toronto Code Camp. You can register/find more infomation/hang out at http://www.torontocodecamp.com/ If you're a developer looking for in-depth content from the people who know (that would be other developers), then the code camp is the place to be. If you're a ...

While on my way back from the MVP Summit, I was playing around with some of the things I had discovered about VS 2005. I mean, if I was going to drip geekiness for the entire conference, why not extend it to the absolute limit. And what I found was something mildly disturbing. A pet peeve of mine for a while has been how easy it is to make an ...

From a couple of different sources, I'm seeing that the first set of documentation for Indigo is now available at http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com.  And, as Andy Milligan suggests, the implication is that the bits for Indigo can't be far behind. Personally, my mouse is poised over the MSDN download page.  The rest of you probably have a ...

We've been playing with the Caching Application Block here at the client I'm currently working with and have found a couple of important items that will be of interest to anyone doing the same. I should say that we're using NUnit to run our unit tests, so some of the information applies specifically to that.  Actually, both of the ...

Notice that the name of this post doesn't say that web service performance can be improved through asynchronous calls.  That is on purpose.  This particular post deals with a limitation that impacts applications that utilize async web service methods.  Actually, it has the potential to impact any application that interacts with ...

I'm currenting working with a team that is putting the finishing touches on a commercial application that uses web services as a major component of the infrastructure.  As part of putting the client portion through its paces, an environment that included a proxy server was tested.  The initial result was not surprising to anyone who has ...

Another post about the deserialization of objects after a web service call.  In this particular scenario, the web service method was returning an ArrayList.  On the client side, I was expecting to see a number of different types of objects.  But one of the objects, a custom class, was being returned as an array instead of an ...