Learn how to create a basic WCF web service, with a plaintext username password authentication, that outputs all incoming and outgoing XML SOAP packet messages to the Visual Studio Console.

I know all you buzz-word kids want me to use words like ‘zen’ and ‘art’ and things like that, heck all this talk of RESTful services is already set enough confusion into peoples minds. But however I decided to take a lunge deep into WCF and investigate what can be done to make such services “RESTfu...

As I and many others continue venturing deeper into the hard decision making process and for in the road between REST and SOAP I have came across another great blog post...

The sample code for creating the SOAP Client (request XML) to access Web Service with SOAP ToolKit

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One of the major challenges in Real World SOA enterprise applications is the lack of semantic information associated with Service Contracts. For a while now the W3C folks have been working in different efforts for relating semantic web Standards (RDF, SPARK, etc) with Web Service basic standards (SO...

The World Wide Web Consortium today released four SOAP 1.2 Second Editions as W3C Recommendations: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Messaging Framework, Part 2: Adjuncts, and Specification Assertions and Test Collection. SOAP Version 1.2 provides the definition of the XML-based information that can be used f...