Presents your 
XML AND WEB SERVICES E-NEWSLETTER for March 8, 2004

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Help .Net Handle COM object calls from Web Services 
 
.NET was designed to make creating applications for Web services and 
calling COM objects equally easy, but doing both at the same time 
requires some skilled coding on the part of the developer. This 
complication arises from the fact that Web services innately employ 
multithreaded processing, while COM objects almost universally employ 
single-threaded processing. 
 
Calling a COM object from a Web service using .NET can tie your 
application in knots. Even with Visual Studio .NET helping out, the 
prospect of a Web service calling a COM object is still 
daunting--despite the fact that Visual Studio.NET can handle both of 
these individual tasks with aplomb. 
 
This article discusses how to successfully call a COM object from a Web 
service using .NET. Find out how to avoid the complex programming traps 
this process creates, and how to make sure your multithreaded and 
single-threaded processes stay untangled. 
http://ct.com.com/click?q=69-CYJiIoWkGO9y_QPIe~K9gxlMWxrn 
 
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READ MORE ABOUT DEVELOPMENT 
 
.NET WEB SERVICES VS. REMOTING: WHICH ONE WILL WORK BEST FOR YOUR APP? 
Microsoft promotes Web services as the silver bullet for most 
everything, but they do offer another technology that might make more 
sense if you aren't tied to a Web server. Find out if remoting might 
work for your next application. 
http://ct.com.com/click?q=ce-SdXCQMsmwoJBDJyFHWmAKPZlmPRR 
 
DOWNLOAD: EXPOSING WEB SERVICES FROM WINDOWS CE .NET 
Xmlws.exe is a sample application that consumes the XML Web services 
exposed from the Windows CE .NET device. The application accompanies 
the MSDN article, "Exposing Web Services from Windows CE .NET." 
Download this sample app now! (Free registration to ITPapers.com is 
required.) 
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