+ In this article, I’m going to take a look at some ways you could generate documentation for ASP.NET Web API. Unless you’ve never generated a Web API website, you’ll be aware that the default templates already include functionality to generate documentation for the API which you might implement, […]
Web Services and Interop
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Identity Server 3 supports the Client Credentials OAuth2 grant. I wrote a brief introduction to both OAuth2 and IdentityServer3 last month, this is a follow-on article exploring some other facets of authentication. This is a little bit like basic authentication, in that the client (the application which wants to consume […]
Introduction Disclaimer: this article assumes the reader is already familiar with OWIN and OAuth standards. It is published in three parts. Late last year I wanted to implement Open Web Interface for .Net (OWIN) OAuth functionality for an administrative subdomain. As it happened, I wanted to specifically integrate OWIN/OAuth authentication/authorization […]
Introduction This is going to be a multi-part series of articles with the end goal of producing a solution which handles security/identity claims across domain boundaries using WCF services and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (with a federation trust) and Active Directory. In order to demonstrate an approach to handling […]
Introduction Recently, I started building up a WCF Service Application from scratch to implement a specific set of operations from an existing WSDL. This was a little cumbersome, but gave me an excellent opportunity to extend and play around with a concept I’ve been trying to perfect for a couple […]
Not long ago, I posed a question to the Stack Overflow community – (is there a) “Good Visio Template (or alternative) for SOA/Distributed Systems?”. Surprisingly, there was only one response! Since then, I have been recently introduced to, of all things, a Java based tool called the ‘Quick Sequence Diagram […]
Hi There, So chances are if you’ve read my subsequent posts, you’ll get the feeling that I’m working with some legacy web service applications. You’d be right, and the challenge of Web Service Extensions (WSE) 3.0 is figuring out how to upgrade them to WCF (.NET 3.5/4.0) without harming the […]
Sometimes, for various reasons, we come across projects or solutions we have to maintain to our chagrin. We have an application which runs on .NET 2.0 and can’t be upgraded to 3.5 or beyond. This application consumes web services published via the old ASMX services, and uses Web Service Extensions […]
Hi there. Renamed in the .Net Framework 4.0 from “ADO.net Data Services” to the new – more snappy – “WCF Data Services”, today I’m going to take a closer look at what drives this latest version. If you look at the release notes there are a number of additions (as […]
Recently, I’ve come to find a lot of spare time on my hands and today I decided that I’ve been sitting on the sidelines long enough; it’s time I got my head into the various APIs and pricing models involved in “Cloud Computing”. There’s a good reason I’ve been waiting […]
You might find this information handy if you work with Windows Services, and wish to grant some basic permissions to user accounts. In my scenario, I wanted to be able to list the status of several key Windows Services used in my overall architecture (for a diagnostic website/control panel) and […]
Someone kindly posted this excellent flowchart in Stack Overflow which helps to identify the most appropriate WCF Service bindings to use in a solution. There’s another version located here: http://architectopia.blogspot.com/2008/01/wcf-binding-decision-chart.html Not a bad little reference chart!
Well, it’s been a busy week. Unfortunately it hasn’t left me with much time to write any meaningful blog entries – apologies. Last Friday I managed to implement an end-to-end solution for object graph serialization with Entity Framework (v4) POCO objects to and from WCF Web Services (note: for .Net […]
Today I have been modifying a very repetitious SSIS package which does bulk import of data form a flat file. The Data Import Wizard is a pain when you want to import the same format but from different source files, especially since it is unstable and tends to crash when […]
Today I feel obliged to link to the almost unknown utility, SQL Server Migration Assistant for MS Access. This is a fairly helpful tool which can simplify migrating Schema and data between two otherwise fairly incompatible products. What is interesting to watch is how the Assistant migrates queries to views and […]