Dayton / Cincinnati Code Camp
I'm here at the Dayton / Cincinnati code camp today. So far it rocks! A lot of familiar faces, and plenty of new ones. I belive there around around 130 people here- quit a showing especially for a Saturday.
Gearing up for a presentation on Windows Media Center Edition 2005. It's been a lot of fun preparing for this. Thursday of this past week my lovely weather web service decided to break- and I couldn't figure it out for the life of me. I found mention on other sites about issues with .NET and the NOAA web service, but nothing to tangible.
I decided to grab a program called Ethereal- it allows you to sniff packets on the network going to and from your machine. I kept getting the Protocol Violation error. After examining the packets I noticed that everything appeared to be posting correctly so I knew the data was coming. However, ASMx with .NET 2.0 is very picky and wants everything "by the book" for security purposes among other things. Eventually I did the following:
1. Forced the protocol version of the HTTPwebrequest to 1.0
2. Allowed for unsafe headers in the web.config
3. Disabled keepalives
I will be posting the code for the demo and the presentation very soon- stay tuned!