10th June 2008

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In this article, Anand examines the steps required to consume an Amazon Search Web Service using an ASP.NET application. After providing a short introduction, he examines the different approaches involved in the development of the application including the Request and Response classes. The article is well supported by the relevant code samples along with a comprehensive analysis of each of them.

http://aspalliance.com/1650_Working_with_Amazon_Search_Web_Service_using_ASPNET

Editor's Comments

TechEd last week was a lot of fun. It was great meeting people and my session on ASP.NET performance had almost 400 people in attendance, making it one of the more popular talks. I met a lot of new people and had fun judging Speaker Idol, in which I was a competitor in 2007. Congratulations to Eric Shupps, who won this year’s Speaker Idol competition, and Alan Stevens who was the runner-up. All of the finalists (really all the contestants) were great presenters and I’m sure we’ll probably see more than one of them at a future TechEd.

Also, last week Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 2 Beta 2. This highly anticipated release fixes a ton of bugs, adds some additional built-in controls, and improves on the tools (Blend 2.5 June Preview). Read Scott’s post for more details, but this is big news and will give plenty of developers (including me) another way to spend their time this summer.

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