Ben Walters InfoPath MVP : .Net

Web Service Studio

Ben Walters — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:47:53 GMT

Ok so I know that this utility is nothing new but this is something I've found very useful especially when developing with the SharePoint web services. It basically allows you to make calls to a web service and see the returned results (simple I know but very useful)

So why blog about it now? well it used to be when I was out on client site and needed to test a web service I would head over to GotDotNet and pull down the latest copy. Since GDN moved to MSDN I've found this tool near on impossible to track down. So I thought I'll put it up somewhere where I can reliably access rather than wasting time trawling search engines. Also this will hopefully make it a bit easier for others to find enjoy.

MOSSIG follow up SharePoint installer project from Codeplex

Ben Walters — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:00:33 GMT

Hey everyone as promised here is the link to the SharePoint web Part project template for Visual Studio 2008 that I showed last night.

Also don't forget Will mentioned that a full VSE for Visual Studio 2008 is due out in the next couple of months. I'll do my best to put up link to this as soon as I know more.

Finally a big thanks to all who attended and presented last night, and don't forget to checkout MOSSIG.Net for all details on upcoming presentations and news.

Technorati Tags: Codeplex,SharePoint,MOSS,Webpart

Can't find your SMTP server in Vista?

Ben Walters — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:17:23 GMT

I was doing some dev work last night and found that as part of my solution I needed to send a notification email.

So with the .net 2.0 email code all set up and ready to go, I headed off to the windows features to install a local SMTP server to do some testing. Imagine my surprise when I found that Microsoft had not included an SMTP server with Vista.

A quick search on the net confirmed this but also turned up this little gem, http://softstack.com/freesmtp.html a free SMTP server that is reasonably light weight and can be installed and setup in minutes, and all works in vista without any issues.