Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform
by pianoben on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:42PM
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I never gave the Visual Studio WSDL code-generator the respect it deserved at the time. With hindsight, it was amazingly easy to use and generally "just worked".
> (if the API was written properly)
A very important caveat! I remember we hired some consultants from a world-renowned tech company - let's call them Big Red for now - and their big integration deliverable was a SOAP API with... one method. It accepted a string, and returned a string. And what was that one string? ...A SOAP request! The best code-generator in the world wouldn't have helped.
To this day I wonder if we actually ended up paying for that. I sure hope we didn't.
> (if the API was written properly)
A very important caveat! I remember we hired some consultants from a world-renowned tech company - let's call them Big Red for now - and their big integration deliverable was a SOAP API with... one method. It accepted a string, and returned a string. And what was that one string? ...A SOAP request! The best code-generator in the world wouldn't have helped.
To this day I wonder if we actually ended up paying for that. I sure hope we didn't.