Category: Uncategorized

Recognizing the ever-growing importance of Web Services, Microsoft has consolidated a lot of useful developer information within the Web Services and Other Distributed Technologies Developer Center on MSDN.

This application is a bit different than most of the others that have  been covered in this blog, but it should be of interest nevertheless. ZipKeys simplifies repetitive data entry tasks. It can be used as a customer support tool, making it easier to reply to emails with canned replies or “blurbs.” It can also […]

The Hiking Outpost site blends Amazon product data pulled from ECS with camping and trail information taken from all over the web into one convenient and very useful interface. The site also uses the ECS Remote Shopping Cart.

Dot Net Nuke is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) for the Microsoft ASP.Net platform. The WCC Amazon Portal is an instant Amazon store for DotNetNuke. Using AWS, product data and images are integrated seamlessly into DotNetNuke pages for a professional presentation and a smooth user experience. the product supports every locale supported by […]

We are in the process of rolling out Developer Token validation for ECS 3.0 today. As we have been saying for a while now, if you don’t pass in a valid developer token, your ECS requests are going to fail. Read more at the Developer Token Validation FAQ.

As someone once said, the good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from! Developers building sophisticated applications around web services need to be familiar with many  standards. Right now, savvy developers need to know something about SOAP, HTTP, XML, and perhaps XSLT. As the clients and services become more mission […]

The new Connect Via Books site is a social networking tool built around common interests in any number of books. After registering at this site and entering in the list of books that you own, the site will let you search for other members with the same books, using your location and other options to […]

Courtesy of the WebServices.org Newsletter, here’s a very informative XML FAQ.