I've got a third party web service method that I'm calling from a .NET 3.5 application. The method is a password change request where you pass in your old password and are assigned a random new one ...

Whereas most of us surf the “visible” HTTP exchanges between browser and Web server, Web services are transporting an increasing load of otherwise invisible traffic. With the help of SOAP, Web service ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

Successful deployment of Java-based Web services requires detailed knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts behind Web services, different Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released what it described as three key recommendations, or pre-standard specifications, that will address performance and reliability issues for Web ...

In Part 1 of the series I went over the basics of Reactive Extensions (Rx). In Part 2 I went over how to compose observable sequences and how to observe asynchronous methods. For this final ...

Web Services are by far one of the most pivotal technologies to emerge in the last decade. They have the potential to be second only to the Internet in their importance and impact on corporate and ...

RESTful clients can update the score by invocating the same URL through a PUT invocation while also passing query parameters. Again, the program will return a JSON-based representation of the score ...

The .NET Framework gives you three different ways to call a Web Service. However, depending on your scenario, the latest and greatest object isn’t necessarily your best choice. If you’re going to call ...