Just looking back and thinking as what India has given to the World. Looked around on internet and summarized some of the great contributions. Interestingly all of these contributions are ancient. Links provide more information on each contribution. Jai ho… [More]

Ok, so you have developed a nice WCF Service with proper implementation of custom fault exception handling, now you want to call this service in a web application or other client application and catch the fault exception in your client code. For simplicity I am using a web page, the following code is self explanatory. [More]

You can happily use .NET Generics in WCF Services. But when you will get the proxy of the respective service, these generics will get converted into Array, even you are using .NET to develop the client application. So now the question is how I should get back from Array to Generic List again. [More]

If you are using a WCF (Web) Service in client application and dealing with large data, at some point you may come across an error message:

{"The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded. To increase the quota, use the MaxReceivedMessageSize property on the appropriate binding element."} Here is the solution. [More]

Nearly every developer and architect would agree on the following, though relatively loose, definition of the business logic layer (BLL) of a software application: The BLL is the part of the software application that deals with the performance of business-related tasks. Code in the BLL operates on data that attempts to model entities in the problem domain—invoices, customers, orders, and the like. Operations in the BLL attempt to model business processes. [More]

Recently I came across a situation when I had to encrypt certain piece of data into ASP.NET and then read the same encrypted data for decryption into Classic ASP. Spent several hours and could not understand why the same encryption/decryption method used in both are producing entirely two different characters. After doing some tests, finally I concluded that it is an issue of character Encoding. [More]

I found the following story on my favorite actor Amitabh Bachchan’s Blog, this is about marriage and divorce. Sometime people take such hasty decision without thinking properly and giving sufficient time. I hope you will like it too. Here the story goes… [More]

Have you ever questioned the difference between a Guru and a Teacher? If you are interested to understand the difference between them here you go. [More]

REST, or Representational State Transfer, is a type of Web service that is rapidly gaining in popularity. So you might ask yourself what the difference is between RESTful services and custom Web services, and why you might choose one type over the other. The key difference between the two types is that REST services are resource-centric while custom services are operation-centric. With REST, you divide your data into resources, give each resource a URL, and implement standard operations on those resources that allow creation, retrieval, update, and deletion (CRUD). With custom services, you can implement any arbitrary method, which means that the focus is on the operations rather than the resources, and those operations can be tailored to the specific needs of your application. [More]

As you know, Web.Config and App.Config files are like plain readable XML files. However, it contains sensitive information such as Connection Strings, Impersonation, App Setting Keys and their values. At some point you may need to secure these sections. .NET Framework allows to make your life simple, by just executing few commands on Command Prompt or few clicks using a Enterprise Library Configuration tool, you can achieve the desired result. There is only one basic requirement you should be able to at least remotely login to the Server where you would like to make these thing. Following are few simple steps to secure web/app.config. [More]