Chandu Thota

As XML Web services invade the technology forefront, I almost feel as if an understanding of the SOAP protocol is becoming an everyday essential for me as a .NET developer. Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework do a good job of hiding the details of low-level implementation of SOAP in Web services; however, my inner "SOAP sense" wasn't really satisfied with the little exposure to raw XML messages and SOAP protocol details I'd gotten while implementing Web services using Visual Studio .NET. So I began to implement my own SOAP Client to communicate with Web services while looking over the raw XML messages that are exchanged. In this article I'll discuss how to build a generic SOAP Client using Visual Basic .NET. What I mean by "generic" is that this SOAP Client can be used to communicate with any Web service. I'll also discuss how to use this client to consume Web ser... (more)

Designing a Rich Text Editor .NET Server Control

One of the biggest advantages of ASP.NET Server Controls is that you can package a lot of functionality into a Server Control and reuse it in the UI layer. The .NET Framework ships with a wide range of .NET Server Controls that come in handy for almost everything that you usually do in a typical Web implementation scenario. In this article we're going to build a text box Server Control that works like a Word document and can be used to format the text without knowing any HTML! This is very useful because this Server Control will simplify life when you need to publish well-formatt... (more)