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What Is a SOAP API?

A messaging specification for information exchange between systems and applications is called Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). A SOAP API is designed in a manner that is more structured and codified than other application programming interfaces (APIs). Compare SOAP to the United States Postal Service. Sending and receiving communications across systems (and within enterprise applications) is made dependable and trustworthy with its help. Although it can be slower than rival architectural forms like REST, it is more traditional, well-established, and trustworthy.

Sometimes we need to compare two dates as start date and end date where we need that end date must be greater than start date . If we use date format in mm/dd/yyyy then compare validator works well but if we use date picker using jquery or the date in dd/mm/yyyy format by any other way then compare validator does not work because it recognizes only dd/mm/yyyy format. To over come this problem a custom date compare validator should be used. Following is a simple application where a custom compare validator has been used .

DataSet:   The DataSet class represents a memory-resident database. It is a container for the DataTable and DataRelation classes.DataRelationIt is a Class to establish relation with more than one data in the dataset.   DataRelation class constructor takes three arguments to establish relationship with other table.  1. Strdatarelationname(String type).  2. Parent table columan name.  3. Child table columan name.   To get all data againsed parent table column name you have to use GetChildRows method, which takes one  arguments( Strdatarelationname). and after getting all fields value of child table you can go further with your own code whatever you want.   Here below code gives you example to relate two table using particular field of table.   DataSet ds = null;  protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)  {  ds = new DataSet();  ds.Tables.Add(MakeAuthorData());  ds.Tables.Add(MakeBookData( ...

If you want to change password of currently logged in user. Then following code can be helpful for you.   Boolean changepass = UserController.ChangePassword(this.UserInfo,   YourOldPassword.Text, YourNewPassowrd.Text);   if (changepass) {     DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin.AddModuleMessage          (this, "Your Password has been changed successfully",          DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Controls.ModuleMessage.ModuleMessageType.GreenSuccess); }

Yesterday, DotNetNuke 6 was released! The DotNetNuke Release Candidate includes all of the new features and improvements available in the final stable version and all the new additions are working very well. The most notable new features and additions in this release are: 1.A brand new skin 2.The DNN extension gallery 3.An all new module actions menu 4.Polished pop up and core styling 5.New admin control panel drop down menus