Jan 31 2007

Should we use ASMX as a Web Service

Category: Intellectual Pursuits — JoeGeeky @ 09:35

I was having a conversation with one of my colleagues and we were having a debate related to what Web Service technologies made sense to use for one of our new projects. After doing some digging I was surprised to find out that ASMX 2.0 is only compliance with SOAP and WSDL Specifications.  The below graph is an extract from a document supplied by Microsoft (click for the full view).  Digging deeper I learned that ASMX had many of the bones required to become compliant with the other standards, assuming you were willing to write the code.  After a little sole searching and some prototyping with other technologies I decided that; while not compliant; Microsoft had one feature that made it all worth while.  It was FAST, EASY, FAST, and EASY...  and given the inherent support within TFS we opted to go with ASMX.  That being said, you should look closely at ASMX compliance levels, WSE, WCF, etc... before making any decisions on what to use.  

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Jan 5 2007

Capture Bug Details and Screen Captures Directly into TFS Work Items from IE

Category: Cool Products — JoeGeeky @ 01:16

I recently had one of those head-knocking V8 moments.  I ran across a great little open source tool that captures Bug details and screen captures directly into TFS Work Items from IE.  This is a simple idea that has a lot of tremendous benefits.  If you are a web product tester working in a TFS environment then you really need this. As stated on this Source page...

IEeee is an addin to Internet Explorer to easily allow testers / developers to raise a bug against the currently loaded page. The bug report will be automatically generated to include all the information a developer needs to reproduce and resolve the problem, including:

  • A screenshot
  • HTML source of the page and any frames and IFrames
  • Any style sheets referenced by the page
  • Any script files referenced by the page
  • Details about the user's machine and browser (OS version, browser version, screen size, ...)

http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=9de82f8b-f006-4c6f-819d-15b1ad1d461a

If you want to see a list of other cool TFS tools, look at my TFS Tag or Checkout the Accentient TFS Widget list which I contribute to.

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