Alex Hopmann’s Blog

ASP.net has this great feature when you are creating web services that it will create a nice HTML form that you can use to test your web-service without constructing a SOAP client. The catch is that by default it only runs for requests from the local machine and I always forget how to turn it on for remote requests.

Here is the trick- add this to your web.config inside the system.web section-

<webServices>
<protocols>
<add name="HttpGet"/>
<add name="HttpPost"/>
</protocols>
</webServices>

Early benchmarks on the new Core i7 server chips (Xeon 5570) show it running about 35% faster on SAP benchmarks than same clock speed 54xx series chips. This could be a really interesting factor in designing our data centers for the Sharepoint Grid services- its always nice to take advantage of the latest hardware trends when you can.

The only possible catch- part of the boost is the new hyperthreading support so an 2×4 core system has 16 threads. Lots of software has problems scaling cleanly with more threads, and I’m interested in seeing how well SharePoint does.