.NET, Web Services


. Visual Mainwin offers unprecedented platform flexibility, allowing you to develop applications in C# and deploy and run them on J2EE. Learn how to take advantage of this freedom by building a C# Web service that you can run on platforms besides .NET and IIS. By lmoroney@philotic.com (Laurence Moroney). []

. In an earlier article, the author wrote about how use JavaScript to display random advertisements when the page loads. To complement that article, he now focuses on rotating the ads in random order, over a period of time without reloading the page. By Jonathan Fenocchi. 1104 []

Stop The DataGrid Madness. ASP.NET comes with a lot of server controls out of the box. One of them is the DataGrid server control. It offers some good packaged functionality, but it suffers from a lot of shortcomings. For some reason, many ASP.NET developers feel compelled to introduce hack upon hack to get the DataGrid to handle the features that they want. [The angryCoder Blog]

A guide to WSDL if I ever have time to read it.  Ironic, since this is supposed to be the Busy Developer’s Guide to WSDL 1.1 or something like that.

WS-*. Sam has notes from Don’s earlier webcast on WS-Routing, WS-Coordination & WS-Tx. I just wish the quality of the actual webcast was better, it peaked at around 100-110 participants, but the audio quality was poor & choppy all the way through. StreetFusion used to handle webcasts with way more participants [at least an order of manitude more], without any audio glitches. [Simon Fell]