Re: webservices

2013-10-03 Thread Greg Keogh
> > Seems too heavy…what type of object are you passing through the service? > Serialized xml, bytes? > Strangely enough, most of what's coming back from the server is not defined as a class or type of object at all, it's a report definition (rows, columns, titles, totals, etc) which get conve

RE: webservices

2013-10-03 Thread anthonyatsmallbiz
Seems too heavy.what type of object are you passing through the service? Serialized xml, bytes? Anthony Melbourne StuffUps.learn from others, share with others! http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Ideas-Incubator-Stuffups-Failed-Startups/

Re: webservices

2013-10-03 Thread Greg Keogh
> > I feel like my method is outdated! > I hope not, as we have an important web service feeding apps in WinForms, Silverlight and ASP.NET. Because it has to be "open", almost everything going in and out is an xml fragment that is optionally compressed as base64 strings. We are even considering a

webservices

2013-10-03 Thread anthonyatsmallbiz
I have been using llblgen for years for web services(using the built in soap in asp.net).. Basically.. I retrieve data as xml, compress then send to client Client decompresses to xml then I deserialise to xml What is the current best practice for web services for smart client applicatio

RE: compression library

2013-10-03 Thread anthonyatsmallbiz
Thanks people J Anthony Melbourne StuffUps.learn from others, share with others! http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Ideas-Incubator-Stuffups-Failed-Startups/ -- NOTICE : The information contained in this electroni

Re: compression library

2013-10-03 Thread Greg Keogh
Beware that System.IO.Compression before 4.5 can only deflate/inflate streams, and although the two provided algorithms are standards, I never dared use them outside of the boundary of a single app. From 4.5 you get ZIP support. I am currently using free SharpZipLib on the server side on combinati

Re: compression library

2013-10-03 Thread David Richards
http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sharpziplib/ I haven't tried any others but I've never had any problems with this one. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 4 October 2013 09:10, wrote:

RE: compression library

2013-10-03 Thread David Kean
System.IO.Compression namespace. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2013 4:11 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: compression library Anyoe suggest a library to compress/decompress byte data? Anthon

compression library

2013-10-03 Thread anthonyatsmallbiz
Anyoe suggest a library to compress/decompress byte data? Anthony Melbourne StuffUps.learn from others, share with others! http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Ideas-Incubator-Stuffups-Failed-Startups/ -- NOTICE :