(For those who’d rather just download the code, the link is at the end.)
Lately I’ve been delving into the ASP.NET MVC framework, the timing of which has been interesting as I am about to finish reading RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby. It’s an excellent book that I’d highly recommend to anybody [...]

A while back, I posted about VS.NET not accepting non-standard ports for web services when adding them via “Add Web Reference…”. I would like to update that post and say that boy, am I a moron. Of COURSE it can accept non-standard ports (and I wondered how they could leave that simple “feature” [...]

It’s now posted.
at MSDN

Aaron Skonnard, from Pluralsight, has written a great 2-part article on developing Contract-First Web Services.
I’ve had the privilege of getting my hands on both of the articles before they were released (the first was recently released, the second is still pending) and used them as a strong resource when developing a Web Service I’ve been [...]

Twice now I’ve come across this issue, so I’m documenting it here.
Adding a web service reference that doesn’t use the standard port (80) through Visual Studio .NET 2003’s “Add Web Reference” interface will cause you all kinds of pain. The issue is that although you can include a port number when specifying the URL for [...]