WSDL

Fasten your seatbelts, you are in for the next round of Web Reference vs. Service Reference, which brings an unexpected twist to the story. After giving reasons why not to use Web References, I’ll now put my devil’s advocate ’s hat on, and try to have you change your mind.

Last Monday I’ve attended my second daughter’s birth, and then spent the week trying to relieve my wife as much as possible from anything but breastfeeding. As a matter of fact, I’d like to keep doing it, it was not only a great break from daily worries, but also a fantastic occasion to spend all the time available with my closest and dearest, which I am not sure when I will have next.

If you try exposing Page 5 Currencies as a Web service in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, and then consuming this web service through a .NET application, you are almost guaranteed to encounter some unhelpful and generic XML errors that give you absolutely no clue about what exactly, where and why, went wrong.