Web services are the next step in building distributed, modularized applications. They allow you to take some of your business logic, compartmentalize it in a component, and execute the functionality ...

The exodus from Visual Studio 6.0 to .NET has begun for most developers. But with this new coding model comes decoupled services in the form of Web services. However, if you still have to maintain and ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

Once you've got a contract that describes a gRPC service, creating the service itself and a client that can call the service is easy. In fact, Visual Studio will do most of the work for you ... once ...

Web developers looking for a performance boost in ASP.NET 7 Web API projects can pick some low-hanging fruit by using caching. Caching is used to store frequently used data or information in local ...

How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

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OK, so I can use a bit of advice from the Hivemind. Here at work we are developing some n-tier applications using ASP.NET. Some of the applications will have sections of code that are common to each ...

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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 ...