WebService Documentation: Using a custom Site Map
Not long ago I started working on changing the look and feel of the default WebService documentation that is generated by asp.net. While I demonstrated how to replace the default page template with a custom one I "glossed" over the details of what you can do with it. By using a custom Sitemap Provider you can create a dynamic Map of all of your WebServices methods. Please note I am not out to explain SiteMaps in this article. They list the pages in a site for use by some ...
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WebService Documentation: Using a custom template
Web Services: they are an easy way to make information accessible or use information from some other site. For example, weather.gov's wsdl. The beauty of web services is that not all web services are .net and we don't have to care. Any web service that adheres to the w3's standards and that provides a wsdl we can easily use in asp.net. In order to help people understand how to consume the service; asp.net even gives us a nice page of generated documentation when someone opens the asm...
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The returning event delegate
pre {overflow:scroll;} Delegates have been a great help to developers everywhere; coupled with Events they form the basis of every asp.net web application. Check out the page event life cycle, events are firing long before the code written by the sites developer. But what happens when events and delegates are used with a return value? I've heard people say that it depends on the return type, it varies by how many functions have been added to the delegate, etc etc... Poppycock. Never t...
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