Yesterday I noticed that some of the internal links on the site have disappeared after a WordPress plug-in upgrade the other day.
I’m really sorry about this, but unfortunately I can’t do anything about it but to look around the site and regenerate the internal links.
The other day I wrote about sharing types between web services to simplify implementation of consumers of these services. You can read about it Multiple web service references sharing typeshere[/intlink]. I mentioned a nicer way to accomplish almost the same thing and I will present it here, by giving an example.
The biggest difference is that you have to define an interface, let all web service producers implement this interface and you as a consumer will be left with a minimal amount of work to consume all these web services as long as their end points are well known.
In this article I would like to point out a useful way to accomplish something that would be really easy, but still have been annoying me for the last couple of months. Imagine that you would like to get some data of some type from one web service and pass it on to another. The data types on both server sides are the same, but the compiler won’t let you pass the type from the first service on to the next one. Casting won’t work either, not without implementing some kind of home made casting method.
This is really really annoying, since the scenario stated above is really common in the web service world. I will present a solution to this, using the wsdl command line tool when adding web references instead of the built-in tool in Visual Studio.