WS, web services

1 of 3214 | Entity Typecode not found in Metadata Cache - While performing an update to some code originally written for CRM 3.0 which I was upgrading to 4.0 and using the new 2007 version of the web services, I found myself getting an unusual error during one of the callouts.  The code created a new custom entity from the data in an existing entity.  This code was orginally written by another party and I"m not sure why they didn't use the mapping features in CRM to do this but it was coded manually. The entity with typecode '8' was not found in the Metadata Cache. Never having seen this before it of course took a lot of time digging through the event viewer and trace logs to find the source of the error.  In this case, it came down to one line:......

2 of 3214 | Services Layer - In my previous posts I showed layers and components, and layers and tiers.  In this post, I'll show the services layer in a layered architecture. Services LayerHere's a visual example of a services layer, where the application is exposing services: Note that services don't need to be "web" services. Key Services Layer ComponentsHere's the key components of a services layer: Service Interfaces. The service interface acts as a facade that exposes the business logic to potential consumers.  The definition of the set of messages that must be exchanged with a service in order for the service to perform a specific business task is the contract. Message Types. Message Types are “messa......

3 of 3214 | OMG - Check This Out (Data Visualization with PowerShell) - Doug Finke has been having fun working with PowerShell and .NetMap from MSR.  Now he has written this AMAZINGLY tiny script to call the World Bank's WebService and visualize the world by income level.  This has to be seen to be believed. If you were ever unclear on the power of the compositional model (toolkit approach) or the productivity you can achieve with PowerShell - just go visit this blog.  Check it out HERE. Doug - awesome stuff.  Truely wonderful.  You've made my day. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows Powe......

4 of 3214 | He's Back.... - After a year hiatus, I've found a doctor to do a partial reversal of my management lobotomy ;).  I've done my management job so well, that I get to do that and some consulting on the side, you know like a hobby.  Everyone needs at least two jobs, so I'll be working part time for the Project team once again. I've already helped complete a web service that will allow editing/ creation of Project Portfolio Server 2007 projects.  More details on that in the coming weeks when it's ready for launch.  For the foreseeable future my focus will be on creating some Project Server 2007 tools and teaching development classes.  Then sometime in 2009 I'll get to start working on ......

5 of 3214 | The release of ColdFusion 9… - …well, the shirt anyway. If you’re eagerly anticipating ColdFusion 9 – codenamed Centaur – you can now get the unofficial tshirt. User groups can get bulk orders with their name on the back. Pity it’s white though! hat tip to Ben Forta. The biggest news this week was that Adobe have finalized their educational licensing and ColdFusion 8 is now available to students and educators free of charge. Government agencies in the US can get a 20% discount on ColdFusion 8 at the moment as well. Coding A couple of security posts this week – hat tip to Steve Bryant’s CF_BlogPicks for these links: Joshua Cyr reminds us to make sure we’re not giving away too much information on our production servers Ja......

6 of 3214 | The Windows Vista Compatibility Center - It's been a couple of months since we released the Windows Vista Compatibility Center, and while I meant to discuss it at the time, it's still worth a little chat. I talk quite a bit about the tools to test for application compatibility, sharing debugging tips, and shedding some light onto the secrets of shimming up misbehaving apps. The fact remains, however, that although you can fix a huge number of things (and hopefully I can help you figure out how), the fact that you can fix things up may not be relevant. If you need the vendor to support it, the fact that it's shimmed means, almost by definition, that it doesn't truly work on Windows Vista without a little help. And the fact that it......

7 of 3214 | Expondo e consumindo dados num mundo de Web Services. - Olá pessoal, tudo certo? Vamos retomar nossas discussões? Depois de uma pausa quase sabática, falar de arquitetura de soluções é sempre muito agradável... Chegando ao escritório encontrei a edição da MSDN Magazine de agosto em minha mesa, com um artigo muito interessante: Expose And Consume Data in A Web Services World, de Elisa Flasko e Mike Flasko. Ref.: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc748663.aspx O artigo começa falando sobre nossas primeiras visões para aplicações RIA e como o foco em serviços na Web fornece uma nova abordagem para a construção de aplicações que interagem com......

8 of 3214 | OutOfMemoryExceptions while remoting very large datasets - When you have to pass an object back and forth between processes or application domains you have to serialize it into some type of stream that can be understood by both the client and the server.   The more complex and big the object gets the more expensive it is to serialize, both CPU wise and memory wise, and if the object is big and complex enough you can easily run into out of memory exceptions during the actual serialization process... and that is exactly what happened to one of my customers...  They had to pass very large datasets back and forth between the UI layer and the datalayer and these datasets could easily get up to a couple of hundred MB in size.  Whe......

9 of 3214 | WS-Discovery at OASIS - Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat...(read more)...

10 of 3214 | Architecture Journal - Article about Federated Identity in the Health Care - Last week, just one week after my vacation, I had it in my inbox - the announcement that Issue 16 of the Architecture Journal about Identity and Access Management has been published. In this issue of the journal you will find an article I've written about federated identity architectures in health care. This article is about a project that I have been involved in within the whole last winter-season and where Emmanuel Mesas from the Microsoft Innovation Center and I helped the Austrian Medical Association in Austria building a prototype. With that project and this prototype my extreme interest in the Identity Meta System Vision was born. Since then I really believe in the concepts of Kim Ca......

11 of 3214 | AxisFault exception - Parameter xxxx doesn't exist! - Hi,<br><br>I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but just giving it a try.<br><br>I was trying to play with Web Services and Apache ...

12 of 3214 | How to Get Notifications from .NET Web Service - This article describes how to use asynchronous Web service method calls to implement callback events from Web service to its clients. ...

13 of 3214 | Problem running web service - I'm trying to run a web service on axis 1.4 from a a Main method in a Java class, but it seems it's never executed (I got some System.out.println ...

14 of 3214 | Phishing in the name of Midwest Airlines -      What happens when you receive a very polite email from an airline company which tells you that you have booked a ticket somewhere across the globe and your credit card has been charged with $690? This doesn't sound strange if you've really bought the ticket on your credit card. What happens when you know that you haven't?    This happened to my colleague recently. She received a mail from the phisher pretending to be the Midwest Airlines web service which thanked her for purchasing the ticket and informed her that her credit card account was charged with $690. Gosh! You should have seen the look on her face. I definitely can't describe it. It was a mixture of fear (the fear of ......

15 of 3214 | Price reduction on retiring exams (and VS/SQL upgrade exams) - Complete your Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), or Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) certification or upgrade your certifications to Visual Studio 2005 or SQL Server 2005 with a 40 percent automatic price reduction on retiring and upgrade exams. The price reduction is valid on: All exams scheduled to retire on March 31, 2009 Upgrade exams from MCAD and MCSD to Visual Studio 2005 and from MCDBA to SQL Server 2005 MCITP... you benefit from the shorter upgrade path AND you get set up for another upgrade path to 2008 This is not an “offer,” meaning you don’t need a code or voucher or any......

16 of 3214 | Developer Toolkit Training in Orlando (Oct 27th to 29th) - How about taking the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Toolkit training straight after the Dexterity Training in Orlando (Oct 20th to 24th)?  This would give you the best of both worlds.   This three-day Developer Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics GP course explores the Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP, eConnect for Microsoft Dynamics GP (eConnect), and Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Getting Started with Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP gives partners a general overview of the features and benefits of using the Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Follow this link for more information:Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Toolkit Partner Academy...

17 of 3214 | Marc Canter asks how Live Mesh will play with the 'Open Mesh' - If you haven't read Marc's post go read it, then go read this post - all should be answered. With a mantra of comprehensive, simple, open we'll fit fine into the 'Open Mesh' (plus we've built on HTTP, FeedSync, REST, ATOM(PUB), JSON, then the identity system uses: WS-Fed/WS-Trust). hit the forum if you have any questions...

18 of 3214 | Need advice on Web service setup - Hi Guys,<br><br>I have to develop a Java client to consume a JAX-WS web service through HTTPs as there is some SSL certificate involved. This web ...

19 of 3214 | Photosynth = Flickr killer? wait for improvements - Ever since I read about the official release of Photosynth, I couldnt wait to get home and get my hands on photosynth.  I have looked at the beta site 6 months ago and have been wanting to see it live, hence the urge. Got to my home, picked up the digital camera, powered it on, storage full message.  Aargs...  Pam(my wife) has filled the 1 GB memory card with pictures.  She was getting out, so I had to clean up the memory card, backing up all the image to my computer and finally picked up the camera and shot around 20 pics of a painting hanging on our livging room wall.  I started photosynth.  Install went smooth.  Created user id as "gajakannan" (ofcourse), and started the "create synt......

20 of 3214 | SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2.0 is Now Available! - [Cross-posted from Zach Rosenfield's blog.]  I’m excited to announce that the second version of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit is available for download!  As I said back in April, we would be offering regular updates to this toolkit with new features and functionality for both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services v3.0.   With this release we added functionality to address some of the challenges associated with running a highly available and/or geographically disperse MOSS 2007 deployment—particularly aimed at synchronizing user profiles in the Shared Service Provider (SSP).   Let’s look at these two areas: H......

21 of 3214 | Ten Digits MobileAccess for Dynamics CRM - Ten Digits and Microsoft announced an alliance right before the Worldwide Partner Conference to provide CRM Mobile clients for both Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices.  Full press release below: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jul08/07-03MobileBlackberryPR.mspx Here's the link to the Ten Digits site: http://www.tendigits.com/ MobileAccess® for Dynamics CRM is the company's latest product line that consists of the MobileAccess Client for BlackBerry and MobileAccess Server for Dynamics CRM. These products enable organizations that have deployed Microsoft Dynamics CRM to increase the productivity of their mobile users by allowing them to use CRM online or offli......

22 of 3214 | UX Improvements in IE8 Beta 2 - Scenario1: when you browse the web for some foreign food, you come across words you don't know. You want to find out what do they mean quickly in your own language. Scenario 2: you'd like to keep up with your friends status on Facebook. Instead of going to Facebook homepage and logging in, is there a easier way to subscribe to any update changes and be notified when your friends' change their status automatically? Scenario3: tabbed browsing is a great innovation but it also generates its own usability problems when you have many tabs open at the same time and some of them are from the same domain. Something like the picture below. Don't you wish there's a way they can be grouped! Scen......

23 of 3214 | Concurrent connections when consuming web services - Think I may have mentioned this before - but check out this post from Darren Jefford re. the low-level throttling of web requests when consuming web services from BizTalk....

24 of 3214 | DateTime Serialization in BizTalk - Possible Bug? - On a recent project, I came across an interesting issue with assigning the current date and time to a promoted property in a Message Assignment shape. The problem highlighted itself in our Audit database where we were auditing process state changes. The submission date of each audited record appeared to be 1 hour ahead than the current local time (based on GMT with Daylight Savings Time in effect - meaning we are currently +1 to UTC). Our scenario involves writing an audit record from the web site that is initiating the process, then each subsequent audit is performed at various steps within a BizTalk orchestration. Each audit record contains some meta data extracted from the en......

25 of 3214 | Hacking files in BizTalk - The previous post on Sql debatching mentioned 'hacking' auto-generated files, something that may alarm some people (though not many, if my experience of developers is anything to go by.) Another example of this is the extraction of primitive values from auto-generated schemas, specifically (in my case) consumed web service responses. As an example, say that you consume a web service that returns...

26 of 3214 | Multiple Activate Receives and Returning Soap Faults Oddity - Imagine a scenario where you have an orchestration exposed as a web service that has two public ports. Each port accepts a message of the same type, but one port is used to send new messages, and the other is used to send update messages. The port type for the port has an access modifier of public, is a request-response port type, plus has a Fault message defined in addition to the request and response messages.In the orchestration, you create a listen shape and then add two activatable receives - one on each branch with one pointing to the request message of the new port, and one to the request message of the update port. So far so good.At this point you're going to want to create a cou......

27 of 3214 | One-Way Web Methods - I made quite a cool little discovery the other day with OneWay web methods in ASP.NET. When I hooked the web service up to my orchestration, I discovered that BizTalk had actually taken the OneWay interaction style into account and only offered a request message type, rather than both a request and response message type. Many people probably know this already, but I found this to be really cool! How many times have I hooked up a web service with an orchestration and ignored the response because the method does not return any value?! More times than I care to remember......

28 of 3214 | Returning SOAP Faults from an Orchestration Published as a Web Service - I was asked the question recently: how can I return a SOAP fault from a web service call if the orchestration that has been published has failed?Well, this is seemingly a lot easier than you would think. A request-response port type in orchestration allows multiple Fault Messages to be defined. These fault messages can be based on any message type (for example, System.String) and are returned to the web service in the same manner as returning a response to a web service, that is, via a send shape to the appropriate fault message on the operation defined on the port type.If you were to take a look at the port type definition in the orchestration view tab in VS.NET, then you'll see the variou......

29 of 3214 | Sample SOAP requests for several adCenter API V5.1 calls - Hello, Here are a few sample SOAP requests for some of the V5.1 CampaignManagement and Reporting Web service operations. Please provide feedback within this blog on the value and format of these samples. We'll use that information to determine how best to include SOAP samples in our MSDN documentation for Microsoft adCenter API . Thank you, and also thanks to my Microsoft colleague Strohm for providing the initial Reporting SOAP sample. Walter Poupore Developer Content Manager Microsoft adCenter...(read more)...

30 of 3214 | Sample SOAP requests for several adCenter API V5.1 calls - Hello, Here are a few sample SOAP requests for some of the V5.1 CampaignManagement and Reporting Web service operations. Please provide feedback within this blog on the value and format of these samples. We'll use that information to determine how best to include SOAP samples in our MSDN documentation for Microsoft adCenter API . Thank you, and also thanks to my Microsoft colleague Strohm for providing the initial Reporting SOAP sample. Walter Poupore Developer Content Manager Microsoft adCenter...(read more)...

31 of 3214 | SUP – Simple Update Protocol for feed services - This is cool – FriendFeed created the SUP protocol (format) for web services that produce multiple feeds.  In order to reduce tons of frequent feed polling, services can offer one “SUP feed” that indicates what feeds on the service have been updated. It works very simply.  Each RSS/Atom feed includes a link tag with that feeds SUP-ID (so each feed has its own SUP-ID) and the URL of the SUP feed.  The SUP feed contains a list of all the SUP-ID’s of feeds that have been updated. ...

32 of 3214 | Virtual Earth 6.0 Auto-Upgrade Postponed - Winner, winner, chicken dinner.... Dear Virtual Earth Customer, As has been communicated periodically over the last several months, we’d like to provide you another friendly reminder and an update regarding the planned deprecation schedule for older versions of Virtual Earth.  Specifically, we’d like to remind you that we will be permanently retiring Virtual Earth version 3 and version 4, and will be automatically upgrading version 5 on September inner22nd, 2008. Also, we’d like to let you know that the planned automatic upgrade of version 6.0 to version 6.1 that was scheduled for August 28th, 2008 has been postponed to a later date. The revised date for the autom......

33 of 3214 | WS-Security 1.1 approved - OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved WS-Security version 1.1 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Developed through an open process by the OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) Technical Committee, WS-Security delivers a technical foundation for implementing security functions such as integrity and confidentiality in messages implementing higher-level Web services applicationsread more...

34 of 3214 | Entrenamiento sobre MOSS (SharePoint Server) - En repetidas ocasiones me han solicitado material de entrenamiento sobre el Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, producto para construir Intranets, Extranets y Portales en Internet con funcionalidad de CMS (Content Management Server) entre otras. Acá te dejo una lista de talleres en línea sobre SharePoint Server (en inglés): MSDN Virtual Lab: A SharePoint Developer Introduction - Content Types Nuevo! MSDN Virtual Lab: A SharePoint Developer Introduction - Data Lists Nuevo! MSDN Virtual Lab: A SharePoint Developer Introduction - Page Branding Nuevo! MSDN Virtual Lab: A SharePoint Developer Introduction - Page Navigation Nuevo! MSDN Virtual Lab: A SharePoint Developer Introduction - Web ......

35 of 3214 | RMI vs JMS vs WS ?? - We are developing an application from scratch. It involves 4 components: UI, business logic layer (with DAO's etc), WS for external clients and WS ...

36 of 3214 | ComoLoHagoFacil: AJAX con Web Services - digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/gardel/archive/2008/08/26/comolohagofacil-ajax-con-web-services.aspx";digg_title = "ComoLoHagoFacil: AJAX con Web Services";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;Matias (en su rol de Mini Me :) nos comparte cómo realizar una de las tareas más frecuentes en el desarrollo de aplicaciones AJAX, la invocación de servicios web desde el navegador.  Video: Mini Me - AJAX with WebServices...

37 of 3214 | Developer events for this week in Tampa, FL - Developer events for this week in Tampa, FL Tuesday: 6:30 PM :: Tampa Office Geeks Association - TOGA Microsoft Office SharePoint Server:: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=129462 6:30 PM :: Tampa SQL Data Scrambling:: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=130674  Wednesdsay: 6:00 PM :: Tampa FL.NET User Group Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - More than a service pack :: http://www.fladotnet.com Thursday: 6:30 PM :: Tampa International Software Architects Association - IASA Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition :: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/120457291 ...

38 of 3214 | Microsoft Popfly - Browsing the web today I came across another Microsoft’s venture, Popfly. I hope a lot of people already know this. It's another step by Microsoft that allows users to create games, web-pages and mashups using Microsoft Silverlight Rich Internet Applications Runtime. You just need to use your Windows Live ID to register. Popfly is currently in Beta phase of development. Popfly allows you to: Create Games: Popfly is a simple way to create and share games with your friends. And best of all, you can get started without writing a line of code. Build Mashups: Mashups are a kind of application that take information from many places and mix it together. Wit......

39 of 3214 | Tech Ed Interview with Carl Franklin - Hey everyone. Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. Been a little crazy for me lately getting everything ramped up for our upcoming release of Virtual Earth which is due here very very soon. When we were all at Tech Ed North America in Orlando, FL this past June I sat down with Angus Logan, Dr. Neil and Carl Franklin of .NET Rocks! fame for a little interview. We covered a bunch of stuff including our upcoming Virtual Earth release which will feature v1 of our Virtual Earth Web Services. Our recent CTP release of the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control, our UltraCam, 3D models as well as a bunch of other Windows Live Platform services including Messenger, Silverlight Streaming, etc. We also go into......

40 of 3214 | Silverlight 2 Beta 2 ?? Web Services ???? - ????? Silverlight 2 ??? Web Services ??? "The remote server returned an unexpected response: (404) Not Found." ?????,?????????????,?????????? Web Services ???????,???clientaccesspolicy.xml ????????????,Silverlight 2 ???????????,?????? cross domain ?? Web Services,?????????????????? Web Services,??? cross domain ?? Web Services ???? Web Services ?????????? clientaccesspolicy.xml ??,?????????,Silverlight 2 ??????????? Adobe Flash/Flex ???? crossdomain.xml,????????,?????? "The remote server returned an unexpected response: (404) Not Found."?????? MSDN ???? Silverlight 2 ??,????? clientaccesspolicy.xml ? crossdomain.xml ??????? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197......

41 of 3214 | WSS 3.0 - Valid properties to be used in FullText Query Search in Search.asmx - When we have valid SQL query something like ““Select Category from Scope()”  and execute them using FullText Query Search in WSS 3.0 using Search Web Service, it throws “InvalidPropertyException”.  This confirms that not all the properties can be used in WSS Full Text search.  How do we know which are all the properties that can be used in WSS 3.0 Search?  Can this be found using SharePoint object model ?   Unfortunately the answer is No.  However,  there are 89 valid properties that can be used in SQL FullText query Search. Usage of any other properties other than these will throw invalid property exception. Here is the list of 89 prop......

42 of 3214 | Amazon: Persistent storage open for EC2 - Amazon said Thursday that its Elastic Block Store feature is now available to all of its EC2 Web service customers. The move gives Amazon Web Services a full storage suite delivered as a service. EC2 is Amazon’s storage service and the Elastic Block Store gives customers a “persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage which you can attach [...] ...

43 of 3214 | My latest article: Web Services federated identity patterns on the Architecture Journal - Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style...(read more)...

44 of 3214 | OASIS Members Form New Committee to Enable Secure Web Service Discovery and Control of Networked Devices - CA, Microsoft, Nortel, Novell, Progress Software, Red Hat, Ricoh, Software AG, and Others Collaborate to Advance WS Specifications for Devices...

45 of 3214 | SerializationException while calling .net classes from Orchestration! - Recently, one of my colleagues had a weird error while trying to invoke a webservice from his orchestration. Even though i was not really peeping over his shoulder, i guess he was trying to call .net service/class from orchestration within a scope. He...(read more)...

46 of 3214 | WS-Evil, non-murder non-allegations, bullets and public knowledge - Here's some links that struck my interest recently on various XML-ish things ...

47 of 3214 | Programming With Exchange Server 2007 (EWS) (Part-1) - This article is the first article of the series on EWS which explore Exchange Web Services...

48 of 3214 | SearchMonkey, OpenCalais and MOSS - Hi all, This is something I really wanted to start including in my public projects (and I will do), as certainly Search will need to improve in coming years. www.cuil.com www.powerset.com www.wikia.com Yahoo with BOSS and SearchMonkey www.searchme.com www.songza.com  just check above examples, and you will see. Well this post was just to show you the example of OpenCalais integration with MOSS: http://www.opencalais.com/MOSS  Open Calais allows you to add semantic metadata to content already in your environment. A very nice way to improve editors usability, as you can see in tagaroo wordpress plugin. How does it work? It installs (through solutions+features): ......

49 of 3214 | WaveMaker 4: Point and Click Ajax - WaveMaker Studio 4.0 the Ajax based visual development platform for creating web applications has been released. Version 4.0 includes a new look and feel, usability improvements, and a host of new features. Building applications has been made easier by a syntax highlighting code editor, improved widget drag and drop, undo, simplified data binding, more flexible css styling, and numerous usability tweaks. Working with databases and web services has become a lot simpler. Forms are generated automatically, and applications can be setup to save data with just a few clicks. A new REST service importer expands WaveMaker's already stellar support for web services. Developers can also create Java ......

50 of 3214 | SharePoint To Go! - I'm back. My apologies to those who have been waiting for me to upload the bits after my breakout sessions and ILL session from TechEd SEA 2008. I'll start off with my session that is titled OFC311 SharePoint Applications To Go! - Building Occasionally-Connected SharePoint Applications Using the Microsoft Sync Framework. You can go ahead and create a list on your SharePoint site. Update the part of the code that points to the SharePoint List Web Service, which I have bookmarked. You need to open this solution using Visual Studio 2008, go to the Bookmarks windows, and navigate through all the bookmarks in sequence. At a later point, I will provide more meat to this, but in the meantime, chec......