Web Services

Discover this simple way to start using Microsoft Azure tables for data storage.

At Microsoft's CEO Summit 2010, CEO Steve Ballmer tells many of the world's most influential business leaders that the future lies in "the cloud."

Windows Azure Diagnostics is geared to help you with the challenges of gathering and analyzing the diagnostic data you need from the variety of machines in a distributed system. Read on to learn more.

February 1 was the date the company had named to begin charging for Azure services.

Obtain client-specific information from your Web application using ActiveX, which only works with Internet Explorer and browsers that have ActiveX extensions.

The Records Center is an important MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) component for companies that need to save critical or legally sensitive information. Discover how to create a Records Center then secure its contents with the MOSS Object Model and one of its default WebServices.

See how to make your web clients read or play content to its users. You will experiment with JavaScript from the command line, learn a JavaScript debugging technique that might be useful, and see how to load the Speech API and ask it to read the ALT (text) attribute of HTML controls.

Learn about a web service method to back up a database from a mobile device using the SQL Backup command and asynchronous method calls.

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

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

Displaying RSS feeds or channels is very easy using Visual Basic 2005. In no time, you can build a simple RSS viewer that takes a user-entered RSS feed URL and retrieves the title, description, and link for that channel.

Have you wondered how to apply polymorphism across Web services? Wonder no more. Paul Kimmel reviews polymorphism, demonstrates XML Web services, and most importantly, shows you how to combine polymorphism and Web services.

Choosing between XML Web services and .NET remoting isn't a hard decision. Just use XML Web services almost all of the time, says Paul Kimmel.

Using .NET Remoting, learn how to configure a remote server, define remotable objects, and define custom event arguments and delegates. Do all of this while creating a simple chat application!

Implement a section handler that coverts an XML node from a bunch of spurious individual values into a strongly typed object.

Explore the distributed architecture in .NET and the general concept behind this architecture.

A further exploration into a reusable class, a couple of UserControls, and a Web page that can be used on any Web site.

Amazon.com has made its mass database of information available to developers through Web services. Learn how to access and harness this powerful tool.

Track Federal Express packages using this Web Service written in Visual Basic .NET.

Create an application in Visual Basic .NET to create a customized search and a spelling checker that uses the Google Web APIs Service. Learn to add a Web Service to a VB .NET application.

Convert a given number into its equivalent in words by using this Web service. For example, you can convert $43.25 to words such as Forty-three dollars and twenty-five cents. This can be used in accounting packages, invoices, and more.