Introduction I recently wanted make a call to a third party web service without the use of a proxy class. The code shown in this post will allow you to programmatically build and submit a web service call using the HttpRequest class. Import Namespaces Add the following lines to import the required namespaces Build an … Continue reading Programmatically generating web service calls
Month: May 2008
Transmitting Images in WCF – Databinding Images in WPF
Introduction This was an interesting scenario I came across; I had a WPF application consuming a WCF service that was returning information about employees. I needed to add the ability to display a thumbnail photo of the employee. The thumbnails in question were stored alongside the other employee data in an MSSQL 2005 database using … Continue reading Transmitting Images in WCF – Databinding Images in WPF
Horizontally Centred Dynamic Images in SSRS
Centring Dynamic Logos in SSRS This was an interesting problem I ran into the other day, basically I have a report that displays data on a range of businesses. The report then needed a dynamic header to display the logos for each of the businesses that feature in the report. The number of businesses could … Continue reading Horizontally Centred Dynamic Images in SSRS
Invalid value for ‘OSVersion’
If you have a Visual Studio Solution that is failing to build with the error message Invalid value for 'OSVersion' the simplest way to fix this is to set an explicit value for OSVersion in your project file; Navigate to your projects folder in the file system Locate the project file (.csproj for C# .vbproj for … Continue reading Invalid value for ‘OSVersion’
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