In this post I will share a solution that I reached the other day regarding an InvalidOperationException that I was receiving when attempting to consume a SOAP web service with DIME attachments. Hopefully this will save you some time, as I was unable to find a good solution online when I encountered the error. DIME attachments are a Microsoft standard that has recently been deemed obsolete…
If your ASP.NET application calls a web service (you have a reference in your App_WebReferences folder), you might come across this fairly typical System.Net.WebException. I have seen two different breeds of this exception, and the solutions for each of them are quite similiar. I will start off with the most common of the two.
The underlying connection was closed: A…
FeedBurner is a pretty amazing service. They provide a lovely image for you to display the number of subscribers on your web site. But what if you want to format that data to be uniform with the rest of your web site design? They got that covered, too. There is even a cool service out there that grants you the ability to…
I have been doing several different things with XML at work lately, and one of the projects required me to generate a big chunk of XML based off another companys pre-defined standards. These standards are unbelievably extensive; the documentation is a 2,000+ page PDF! All of the data used is dynamic and not in my control, so I was kinda worried about errors in the XML. I…
