Web services articles

On this page you’ll find an overview of all the articles I’ve written over the years. The more recent contributions focus mainly on photography and software development in .NET (C#, Visual Studio, VSTS, Azure, LINQ, Entity Framework, Web Services, WPF, Silverlight, …). The older articles were often created as teaching or demonstration material for my computer club VJI and cover topics such as Delphi, PHP, databases, JavaScript, Windows, Office, multimedia applications, and even Atari.

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.NET - ASP.NET WebAPI services and Windows Integrated Authentication

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.NET

Web services

A detailed article about ASP.NET WebAPI 2.2 REST services and Windows Integrated Authentication (WIA) for intranets. How does it work and how to configure windows authentication in your .NET server project, in IIS (Express) and in the webbrowsers. And finally I will show some examples how to implement .NET and HTML/Javascript clients which consume the service.

.NET - Customize WCF RIA Services code generation

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.NET

Web services

Silverlight

SP1 of Visual Studio 2010 and the new WCF RIA Services Toolkit makes it possible for you to implement you own code generation classes that can manipulate the client code generation of WCF RIA Services. In this article I will describe how the code generation works and I will demonstrate some scenarios and ideas were customizing the generated code is a nice technique to extend your own framework.

.NET - First look at WCF RIA Services

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.NET

Web services

Silverlight

A few months ago Microsoft released the first preview of .NET RIA Services. This new framework promises to simplify building n-tier Line of Business (LoB) applications by providing patterns, components and tools to build services, query data, handle CRUD operations, resolve concurrency, manage data validation, ... In this first article I will focus on the current limitations and I will offer you some of my workarounds and tips.