The Shared ASP.Net environment is a Windows Server 2016 system running IIS 10. It supports all versions of ASP.Net Core through 10*, all versions of ASP.Net Framework through the final v4.8 release, ...

So I've written my new ASP.Net web service using Visual Studio Express 2008, tested it on my machine, and now want to deploy it to a remote machine I have Remote Desktop access to. Fortunately, VS ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...

It's easy to test a service if you create it in a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service Library -- just press F5 to bring up Visual Studio's Test Client. Testing isn't as easy if you create ...

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 ...

The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...