When creating a New Project, under the language of your choice, select Web and then change to .NET Framework 3.5 and you will get the option of creating an ASP.NET WEB Service Application.
I am far from an authority on these issues, and while this response below might not be an exact fit to your problem, my recent experience of making a proxyless connection to a service might offer some insight to you or the next person with a similar issue. I would start by seeing if you … Read more
Today, years after I posted this question, we finally found the answer to this question. It was not a Squid proxy server as we had come to believe. We continued experiencing issues like this with various web services/sites. The last straw was when we finally needed to deploy an SVN server that was used by … Read more
It might be beneficial to study the API’s of other folks to see how they do it. Most of the useful public API’s are published somewhere on the web. For example, the Overmind project publishes their REST API here. In general, their approach is to return a JSON Dictionary containing the new or modified entity … Read more
When adding the service reference try clicking on the ‘Advanced…’ button and then uncheck the ‘Reuse types in referenced assemblies’ checkbox. I found this out when I had created a simple project to test a third party service which all worked fine. Attempting to add the same reference to the main project resulted in the … Read more
I’ve done some of this recently, and here are my experiences. There are three basic approaches: Regular Expressions. Most flexible, easiest to use with loosely-structured info and changing formats. Harder to do structural/tag analysis, but easier to do text matching. Built in validation of data formatting. Harder to maintain than others, because you have to … Read more
change your code to: function ChangePurpose(Vid, PurId) { var Success = false; $.ajax({ type: “POST”, url: “CHService.asmx/SavePurpose”, dataType: “text”, async: false, data: JSON.stringify({ Vid: Vid, PurpId: PurId }), contentType: “application/json; charset=utf-8”, success: function (data) { Success = true; }, error: function (textStatus, errorThrown) { Success = false; } }); //done after here return Success; } … Read more
ADO.Net Data Servcies makes it really easy to build and consume RESTful web services in the .Net world but nevertheless understanding the concepts is important. Compared to WCF (which added REST support later), ADO.Net Data Services was built primarily for REST. Guidelines for Building RESTful Web Services has all the info on the resources you … Read more
At Pycon Australia, Richard Jones compared the most popular lightweight web frameworks. Bottle came out on top. Here is the full presentation.