Why your NetCF apps fail to call some web services
Here’s the scenario: You are writing an NetCF app and trying to call a web service from that app. You generated the code for the client proxy class using Visual…
Getting OpenID user profile information using JanRain’s .NET assembly
I previously posted regarding the ASP.NET controls I wrote to wrap JanRain’s .NET implementation of OpenID. I have updated those controls to now automatically request user profile information from your…
ASP.NET drop-in control to enable OpenID logins for your site
OpenID is gaining ground, and with good reason. A cross-platform, cross-browser single Internet sign-on using a distributed network is very appealing. I’ll assume though that you already know what OpenID…
WSE3 and ASP.NET Membership Provider authentication
I am not an expert in WSE3 by anyone’s definition. So when I went looking for a way to add authentication requirements to my web service that tied into the…
How I find performance bottlenecks in my ASP.NET projects
Have you ever heard of a product called Ants Profiler by Red Gate? An absolutely phenomenal product for profiling .NET code. At the time of this writing, it runs at…
FreeTextBox 3.1.1 without aspnet_client directory
I have already blogged about how to get FreeTextBox 3.0.x working without an aspnet_client subfolder with its hundreds of files. FreeTextBox has seen several revisions since that post, and amazingly…
Gaining total control of URL rewriting for ASP.NET/IIS (or mono)
More often lately I have wanted to handle "nice" URLs in my web application by forwarding those requests on to their actual URLs. ASP.NET offers HttpContext.RewritePath that you can use…
Enabling log4net in .NET 2.0
I am just getting into using log4net, and for the most part I like what I see. It works with .NET 2.0, but it has a couple of gotchas that…
How I got FreeTextBox 3.0 working without aspnet_client
. FreeTextBox is a (free) rich text editor control for ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0. It is pure JavaScript, supports Mozilla, IE, and other popular browsers, and works great (almost). You…
Java client for an ASP.NET web service, part 6
It turns out that the change to RPC style was exactly what made the difference. Now the Java client can call into my .NET web service without a problem. Specifically,…