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Our enterprise customers and the consultants using Alpha Five v11 often ask about Web Service integration. We recently received a video from professional developer Charles Andersson that shows how he integrated a .NET Web Service into an Alpha Five v11 application that he built. After viewing the video we decided to ask Charles for more information about his application, and how he integrated the .NET Web Service, so that we could share it with you.

A lot of developers building Alpha Five v11 applications today need to do so quickly in order to meet the requirements of existing businesses or organizations. Another important use of Alpha Five v11 is that it enables our customers to create SaaS applications from scratch in a fraction of the time and cost that it would take to build their SaaS application with PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, or Java EE. Using Alpha Five, professional developer Scott Moore has built an exciting new SaaS application called PetSitClick, positioning it as the "Professional Dog Walking and Pet Sitting Software."

We recently conducted a customer satisfaction survey of our Alpha Five v11 customers and were gratified to find that 96.5% of them said that they would recommend Alpha Five v11 to colleagues and friends. But if you have been a professional developer for any length of time you know that in this industry, if you rest on your laurels, you are likely to get eclipsed. To that end, we are working hard to continuously improve Alpha Five. Two of the most recent enhancements that we have introduced are shown in these videos...