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The exodus from Visual Studio 6.0 to .NET has begun for most developers. But with this new coding model comes decoupled services in the form of Web services. However, if you still have to maintain and ...

Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

Whenever a new development platform is released, it takes time for the design patterns and best practices for building applications on that platform to catch up with the technology. This is no ...

The web-dev ASP.NET Core framework and Xamarin.Forms' successor .NET MAUI received the lion's share of dev attention in the seventh preview of .NET 9 as Microsoft preps for a November launch at .NET ...