Your place to find helpful tips, examples and announcements for developers who use Windows Web Services API, WCF and Visual Studio. http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/atom.xmlCommunity Server2009-03-20T11:32:00Zhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/10/09/final-version-of-wwsapi-for-windows-xp-vista-server-2003-and-server-2008-and-my-plans.aspx2009-10-09T20:40:00Z2009-10-09T20:40:00ZIn today's post: Check out this post that announces availability of the final version of WWSAPI runtime for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. This version corresponds to the one released in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.Please make sure to regenerate all code using the new version of wsutil.exe tool. You will also need to rebuild all source code that used any of the pre-released versions of this API. To develop for the final version of the runtime, you need to install Microsoft...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/10/09/final-version-of-wwsapi-for-windows-xp-vista-server-2003-and-server-2008-and-my-plans.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9905603" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/07/31/new-article-on-connecting-native-c-code-and-wcf-web-services.aspx2009-08-01T03:17:30Z2009-08-01T03:17:30ZNishant Sivakumar has put together a great article describing how to use WWSAPI to build native code clients to WCF services and how to implement web services in native C++ code using WWSAPI. You may find it on code codeproject.com . Thanks Nish!...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/07/31/new-article-on-connecting-native-c-code-and-wcf-web-services.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9854825" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/07/31/quick-follow-up-on-the-talk-during-techready9.aspx2009-08-01T03:12:59Z2009-08-01T03:12:59ZIf you had a chance to attend my talk during TechReady9, you may find below the links to the content I have mentioned during the talk. Thanks everyone for great questions, all feedback and comments. Looking forward to chat with you more and dig deeper into how Windows Web Services can help your customers. Videos of past talks and tutorials, http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/WWSAPI/ PDC 2008 is an introduction level talk with architecture overview and detailed walkthrough steps required to build a native...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/07/31/quick-follow-up-on-the-talk-during-techready9.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9854824" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/07/24/sample-of-c-client-to-exchange-web-services.aspx2009-07-24T22:22:00Z2009-07-24T22:22:00ZFor sometime I thought that I should post a native code sample of a client code to Exchange Web Services . After all, we have used WSDL for EWS to tune wsutil.exe and test interoperability during developement of WWSAPI. I have even built a prototype but never had a chance to finish it. However, after this post on forums by steve_olivier with a sample of WWSAPI based client, I do not think there is much left for me to show in an example. Thanks Steve! If you are interested in building native code...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/07/24/sample-of-c-client-to-exchange-web-services.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9847806" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/07/23/more-videos-on-how-to-build-web-services-in-c-on-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx2009-07-23T20:28:00Z2009-07-23T20:28:00ZYou can now find two more videos on building both client and service in native C/C++ code on Windows Server 2008 R2. There are on the channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/WWSAPI . The videos show step by step creation of a client and a service from the sample I used during TechEd 2009 . You can find source code for this sample with instructions on how to build it here . Try it out and let me know of any comments....(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/07/23/more-videos-on-how-to-build-web-services-in-c-on-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9846620" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/05/20/release-candidate-of-windows-web-services-api-is-now-available.aspx2009-05-20T21:16:00Z2009-05-20T21:16:00ZUpdated on 10/01/2009 - This version is not available anymore. Windows Web Services API Release Candidate is now available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The table below summarizes level of Service Packs and CPU architectures supported by the Release Candidate: Windows Version Service Pack x86 x64 ia64 Windows XP SP3 Yes Yes No Windows Server 2003 SP2, R2 SP2 Yes Yes Yes Windows Vista SP1 Yes Yes No Windows Server 2008 SP1 Yes Yes Yes Same as the Beta,...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/05/20/release-candidate-of-windows-web-services-api-is-now-available.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9632647" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/05/15/follow-up-from-building-web-services-in-native-c-c-code-session-at-teched-2009.aspx2009-05-15T23:19:00Z2009-05-15T23:19:00ZThanks everyone for attending the session on building web services in C++ code during TechEd 2009! I greatly appreciate all your questions, comments and suggestions. Please fill out the evaluation of this session if you have done this yet. To evaluate this session, open Session List page, search for DTL311 session. Once the search finds the session, find on the page "Evaluate this session" button. Clicking on this button will open up very small questionnaire. If you have time, please provide any...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/05/15/follow-up-from-building-web-services-in-native-c-c-code-session-at-teched-2009.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9619516" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/05/08/how-to-use-tracing-with-the-rc-version-of-windows-web-services.aspx2009-05-09T01:34:00Z2009-05-09T01:34:00ZTracing in Windows Web Services uses Event Tracing to let you know about what happens inside the WWS runtime after your code calls into the API. Tracing is available on all versions of Windows we support (XP, Vista, 2003, 2008 and 7). In case of Windows 7, once you install Windows 7 Release Candidate and Windows SDK for Windows 7 RC , you can use tracing to troubleshoot communication issues in your applications that use WWS. Traces are logged for major events like entry and exit into Ws*() function;...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/05/08/how-to-use-tracing-with-the-rc-version-of-windows-web-services.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9597995" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/05/08/release-candidate-version-of-windows-web-services-in-windows-7-rc.aspx2009-05-09T01:02:00Z2009-05-09T01:02:00ZYou have probably already noticed that Windows 7 Release Candidate became available earlier this week. To continue using Windows Web Services on Windows 7 Release Candidate, you need to download Windows SDK for Windows 7 RC . It is available in ISO and Web Setup format. Web setup allows you to install a specific subset of the SDK you select without having to download the entire SDK. ISO setup allows you to burn a DVD that will install the entire SDK. There are three ISO images available for different...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/05/08/release-candidate-version-of-windows-web-services-in-windows-7-rc.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9597961" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/04/06/all-resources-for-connecting-native-c-c-code-to-web-services-on-one-page.aspx2009-04-07T01:50:00Z2009-04-07T01:50:00ZFor some time I was planning to put together one page with top resources available to developers to start using WWSAPI. Yeasterday I have finally found time to do it. Here it is: http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/pages/connecting-c-c-and-web-services.aspx I will keep updating this page with new resources as they come online. At some point, something similar should appear on MSDN....(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/04/06/all-resources-for-connecting-native-c-c-code-to-web-services-on-one-page.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9534657" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/04/02/building-web-services-on-windows-what-to-use.aspx2009-04-02T21:08:00Z2009-04-02T21:08:00ZI came across a great post from Dan Driscoll in which he outlines which stacks are available on Windows for building web services. He is absolutely right in describing the purpose of all 4 stacks available and it worth of quoting him. Here are 4 stacks available on Windows with my comments on each of them: Generic Web Services Stacks Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is for building web services and clients using managed code (C#, VB, etc). It is for developers who use managed code in developing...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/04/02/building-web-services-on-windows-what-to-use.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9529515" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/03/30/need-help-with-connecting-your-native-c-c-code-and-web-services-using-wwsapi.aspx2009-03-30T21:42:21Z2009-03-30T21:42:21ZIf you have started using Web Services API and building either clients to web services or web services in native code, here is an event where the product team that works on the API can help you. On May 19-21 there will be WWSAPI-specific "virtual lab" scheduled as part of "Enterprise Network Solutions" with Windows Server 2008 R2 . As an attendee of this lab, you join the event using Microsoft LiveMeeting and you "bring" your code to the event by hosting a development configuration at your location....(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/03/30/need-help-with-connecting-your-native-c-c-code-and-web-services-using-wwsapi.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9519874" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/03/27/bringing-native-c-c-code-up-to-the-cloud-windows-azure.aspx2009-03-27T22:43:08Z2009-03-27T22:43:08ZIf you have attended MIX 2009, you may already know that with Windows Azure Tools and SDK March 2009 CTP it is now possible to bring native C/C++ code onto the Azure Services cloud. If you are like me who was not at MIX 2009, you may find a compilation of links to interesting videos in this post . In addition, Cloud computing team has several posts on their blog that outlines this new CTP and answers basic questions around VS tools support for Azure services. Jim Nakashima has posted a detailed walkthrough...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/03/27/bringing-native-c-c-code-up-to-the-cloud-windows-azure.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9514900" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/03/27/talks-and-blogs-on-building-web-services-in-native-c-c-code-in-italian.aspx2009-03-27T22:16:38Z2009-03-27T22:16:38ZIf you speak Italian, there are two great resources to learn more about connecting your native C/C++ code and web services. Raffaele Rialdi has started series of posts on his blog about how to use API for building both web services and clients to them in native code. He has presented the API in a session during Basta! Conference and Win7 pre-launch . Mario Fontana has also posted very detailed step-by-step guides for building web services in C/C++ and clients to web services in C/C++ . I also know...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/03/27/talks-and-blogs-on-building-web-services-in-native-c-c-code-in-italian.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9514801" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/03/20/upcoming-talks-on-windows-web-services-api.aspx2009-03-20T21:32:00Z2009-03-20T21:32:00ZIf you are interested in learning more about Windows Web Services API and how to use them to connect native code and web services, here are the upcoming events for you. 1. Microsoft Virtual TechDays for Developers take place on April 1, 2009. You can participate in an online meeting where we will look on how you can build web services and clients to them using WWS API. You can register for the session here . In this session, I plan to spend majority of the time on introducing the API and showing...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2009/03/20/upcoming-talks-on-windows-web-services-api.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9493205" width="1" height="1">NikolaDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/NikolaD.aspx