Contents tagged with Distributed Applications
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ASP.NET Params collection caveat
One of the nice little features in ASP.NET is that the HTTPRequest object has a Params property that I can access to get the values of the parameters of a request, without having to explicity know or specify whether those parameters are part of a QueryString, Form, Cookie, or Server Variable. However, like most convenienes, this comes with a price - or at least a caveat as pointed out in this post by Scott Hanselman.
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An Introduction to the Web Services Architecture and Its Specifications
This new article on MSDN is a long, comprehensive overview of Web Services and their various specs.
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Rocky Lhotka on When to use ASMX, ES or Remoting
Two weeks ago I posted a reference to Don Box's thoughts on when to use ASMX, ES or Remoting. Although Don's post included references to several other people, including Rocky Lhotka, Rocky has just come back with another, more extensive posting, outlining his thoughts on the subject. A good read.
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When to use ASMX, ES or Remoting
I am a very believer that engineering, and life, is about tradeoffs. It is rare indeed when there is an “alway true” right answer. Ask anyone who has taken any of my training courses - the answer to almost any question, expecially if if begins with “Which way is better...”, is “it depends” ! The answer to all other questions is “XML” ! :-)