After having great success consuming a WCF Web service using MonoTouch as I mentioned in the previous post, I next set off to consume an OData feed thinking this would be just as easy. And sure enough, it was just as easy, until I graduated my wonderful little app from the iPhone Simulator to my… Read More »
I was recently presented with an opportunity to write a mobile application for a local Dallas homeless ministry. Learning about what the ministry leader envisioned for the app as well as already owning a Mac and an iPhone led me down the iOS development path. After reading a little about Objective-C and memory management, I… Read More »
Stumbling here because you are having trouble updating a service reference in your Windows Phone 7 application? Are you getting a warning that reads something like this? Custom tool warning: Cannot import wsdl:portType Detail: An exception was thrown while running a WSDL import extension: System.ServiceModel.Description.DataContractSerializerMessageContractImporter Error: Could not load type ‘System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractSet’ from assembly ‘System.Runtime.Serialization, Version=2.0.5.0,… Read More »
In this post I am going to walk through writing and consuming JSON services using ASP.Net, WCF, and jQuery to request the stock price for a company. Visual Studio 2010 Web Application Project Template Additions jQuery Intellisense – let Visual Studio write your jQuery for you AJAX-enabled WCF Service – item template that auto-generates the… Read More »
Working with object trees is risky business when combined with remoting. Object trees often have very deep branches and circular references that will clog your pipes and overflow your stack when not handled properly. NHibernate has addressed this same problem in the object-relational space with a very cool feature called lazy initialization, implemented using the… Read More »