THERE are certainly lots of articles around that explain how to create your own WCF REST service. However, I couldn’t find many that explained how to consume a REST service. So this is what I’ll concentrate on in this article… so read on..
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RIA Services: File uploading – service method
THE final part to our File Uploading via RIA Services exercise is the Domain Service itself. This article continues from RIA Services: File uploading. Before reading this article, I encourage you to have a glimpse of the prerequisite articles list below:
Prerequisites
- How to enable SQL FileStream Types
- Using SQL FileStream Types in your Databases
- MaxRequestLength – Packet sizes: Size isn’t everything
- RIA Services: File uploading
Here I will go into detail on how to code your domain service class to receive data packets sent across the wire from the File Stream Uploader generic handler class.
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Querying ActiveDirectory using LDAP
MANY corporate environments rely on a backbone system that controls access to the entire corporate network. One of the more common systems out there is Microsoft’s Active Directory. Active Directory is a directory service. It is a hierarchical system of objects where each object can be a phyical or virtual entity within the corporate environment. Entities can range from being a meeting room, a person, a printer, or a computer system.
These entities can then be grouped together to form organisational units. Organisational Units are created to tie common entities together; whether it be a geographical grouping or a structure grouping. Each entity is comprised of many attributes. These attributes provide additional information about the entity. For example a Person entity will have their Login, Firstname, Surname and Department etc as attributes.
Developing a software solution for a corporate environment will most likely entail Active Directory access for various reason. In this article I will explain how you can create your own Active Directory querying utility to suit your requirements…