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Life

Don’t put a ring on her

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Boy meets girl, boy loves girl, boy asks girl in marriage, girl expects a little box with a fancy ring.

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Technology

SSDs make you a minimalist

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How my new SSD made everything faster and allowed me to backup all my files online for free.

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Writing

Tips about writing a Novel for NaNoWriMo

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Trust me, I’m a loser participant.

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Technology

Calling a Web Method in C# without Service Reference

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Last week I gave you a method that, using SOAP and HttpWebRequest, allowed you to invoke a Web Method without a WSDL or a Web Reference. Well today, I’ll give you an improved version of that method. In fact I’ll give you a whole ready-to-use class with additional functionality.

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Technology

Calling Web Service without WSDL or Web Reference

Once I had to test in C# a dozen of web services developed by a third-party. However they provided no WSDL and no ASMX – therefore it would be impossible to use Web References. They only provided the name of the web methods, their urls, calling credentials and an XML request example.