Learn how to leverage BLOBs in your application. Read along as we look at the simplest of those scenarios, simply hosting your public files in a better place than your server.

If you're building Windows Mobile apps FakeGPS could be the answer to your troubleshooting worries. Learn how to test your GPS applications using FakeGPS.

Soap Panda is an application for testing soap based web services. Soap Panda takes WSDL as input and generates in memory .NET soap client proxy code for invoking web service methods. This code is compiled and stored in an executable file; executable file is then explored by Soap Panda application using reflection to create instances of the classes that exist in the soap proxy client dll.

Need your server and your site up and running quick? Let Greg Larsen show you what you need to know to get SQL Server running and configured.

An ADO.NET Data Services Tutorial covering REST, querystring operations and expressions, HTTP verbs, Linq to Data Services, security, exceptions and tracing.

This tip looks at properly closing a WCF connection from your application - whether you're using the proxy classes or a ChannelFactory.

A valuable feature of SharePoint 2007 is the introduction of an online spell check program. But, that list of words may not always fit your needs. See how you can modify the spell check to include words specific to your industry.

Learn about callback, a lightweight technique used to call server-side methods asynchronously from JavaScript without any postback and reloading/rendering of unnecessary parts of the page or unnecessary code.

Build a Windows Event Log Watcher Service Process to Export Event Log Entries as an RSS feed using System.Diagnostics.EventLog, EntryWritten, and EnableRaisingEvents.

This five-part article gives a basic overview of the building blocks underlying XML Schemas, showing how and when to use them.

Discover Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Microsoft introduced this technology, which is a part of .NET 3.0, to make your life easy when it comes to building distributed applications.

Web services can play a significant role in data transport and overall communication between the client and the server. Learn how ASP.NET AJAX can consume ASP.NET web services.

Learn how to use a web service method to "extract" "Path to Executable" information for a given NT Service.

Learn how easy it is to consume Web services from your client-side applications!

SOAP headers are a good place to put optional information, and a good means to support evolving interfaces.

Discover how easy it is to begin developing sites incorporating maps from the Google Maps API.

Create an online SQL formatter based on the SQL Formatter Web Service.

Learn how to get the latest files from Visual SourceSafe remotely.

Discover an approach to efficiently communicate with a Web service asynchronously.

Learn how you can use the SharePoint Web services to integrate SharePoint capabilities into your application. The Web services provided by SharePoint provide a vast array of features.

When choosing between .NET Remoting and Web services for your distributed applications, XML Web services are the right call most of the time. Learn how to produce and consume these Web services.

Learn how to leverage Google's Internet search capabilities from within your application through Google's web service API. Complex query terms and filtering capabilities assure relevancy of the search results to your application needs.

Learn how to use asynchronous Web services in your application and how you can use the callback method to make your application.

Writing .NET Web services without using Visual Studio can be tricky. Learn how to create a Web Service without using Visual Studio .NET.