I sure I am just missing something simple, but how can I repoint my webservice client application from my development server to my test or production server without recompiling. Currently I have included all three web services into my client application and I just comment out the ones I am ...more >>

I am new to deploying web services and would like to understand the web setup project capability. If I understand correctly, I add the web setup project to my web service applicatoin and build it. I then copy the msi file to my hosting machine and run it to configure my web service on the ne...more >>

Hi, i have several webservices, i want them all tho refer to the same webconfig file, how can i do it? -- Message posted via http://www.dotnetmonster.com...more >>

I would like to access an ASPX service that returns a simple character string and have that character string appear on the page that called the ASPX service. The calling page will be either HTML or ASP 3. Can you point me at an example available that will set me in the right direction? ...more >>

Hi, I am writting a =2ENET Client for a Java Web Service=2EI have created= a =2Ecs file from the WSDL and the XSD's Given=2E I am trying to query a Web Service which has the description::: // Service Description::::::: [System=2EWeb=2EServices=2EProtocols=2ESoapDocumentMethodAttribute("urn...more >>

If you have an ASPX app which calls a WebSvc do you need to deploy the WebReference folder or not? bin\foo.dll foo.aspx webREference? needed or not? TIA ...more >>

When creating a web service using .net the folders inetput\wwwroot is created. If you need to move an existing web service on another machine running IIS, can the inetput\wwwroot\etc just be copied to the hosting machine Thanks,\ Fred...more >>

hi ng, is it possible in dotnet to restrict a value for a variable. i remember that there is something like that in delphi. my problem: i have a bussiness object that has a string variable which can only be set to some well defined values. Like: string color="red" (or "white" or "black...more >>

Hi all I have an application that seems to be having an ongoing battle with my firewall. I am using a webservice to send back data to a SQL server database. Betwen the two machines is an ISA 2004 firewall. The firewall is set up so that it only allows authenticated traffic (i.e. Windows use...more >>

We have two web service machines. Call one WS1 and the other WS2. They are seperated by a firewall. WS1 handles web service calls and also calls web services provided by WS2. Both machines do not get updated or restarted very often. The problem is after some period of time, the web service call f...more >>

I have an ASP.NET web sercice that processes a form. At the completion of processing I want to redirect to a page that contains the response (the location of this response page is passed to the web service in the form). How can I invoke redirection the web service? -- -- Thom Little -...more >>

My ASMX page currently returns one item in the XML document when I click the invoke button. Can anyone tell me how to return two or more items on the same XML document? I just need a simple example-I have included my current code for reference. Thank you. Imports System.Web.Ser...more >>

Hi, Is there any performance hits by using ref in web service call? method 1: void foo(ref DataSet ds, string key) method 2: DataSet foo(DataSet ds, string key) which one will have better performance for a web method? Thanks! John ...more >>

Hi All, I have a doubt on WS. Initial deployment of an asp.net app which calls a websvc includes copying all the webreferences and proxy files (including the .cs files of the proxy) If I build a new version of the asp.net app and don't change anything in the underlying WS or the way it calls it,...more >>

Hello. When I initially published a WS that I developed using VS there was a bug in the code. In a client app that I wrote to test the WS I added a web reference to the WS and ran a test, calling the published function, and it bombed because of the coding error. To my surprise the source of...more >>

Hi, I have an app that needs to access a java webservice to validate a piece of data. This webservice is found on a server that requires a SSL certificate to authorize use. I created a webreference with the provided WSDL file. However, when I call the function I get a 403: Forbidden er...more >>

Hi Prior to sitting MCSD exam 310 I am going back over my Developing Web services course book. (MOC 2524C). When I compile the first lab (Lab03) - Woodgroove bank onsole app, The request part of the exercise works fine, then I get an error message: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.Net...more >>

A few questions about internet bandewith if I may. Web services allows data to be uploaded as well as downloaded. Why is upload speed substantailly lower then dlownload speed? If a web service application is required to push a lot of data what are the options for greater performance. I g...more >>

I'm trying so send an XML string to a ASP.NET web service with a simple signature: [WebMethod] public string Save(string xmlString) { // do something with xmlString... } Whenever I try to call the webservice, either the xml string gets stripped out (xmlString is empty) or a SoapExcep...more >>

My ASP.NET 1.1 web service written in Visual C+ 1.1 (2003) fails with an error 400 if the body of the HTTP post exceeds about 4 megabytes. (I don't know the actual threshold of failure; it works correctly at 2 megabytes and at smaller sizes). The service does nothing except create a log file on ...more >>

Hi, I am having problems with generating a c# proxy class from a IBM websphere WSDL file, when running the wsdl.exe to create the c# proxy file command i recieve an error: Warning: one or more operations were skipped. Warnings were encountered. Review generated source comments for more det...more >>

Hi, What is the best practices way to handle a publish-subscribe pattern with SOA? Say we have a application which is publishing messages that some event occurs. Now there are multiple consumers of these messages, and we want to be able to easily add or remove consumers. What is the right w...more >>

Hi, I have setup a .NET Chat Program using Web Services (concatenating new messages to an Application call) and am currently trying to extend this so that a user can send private messages. I believe there is a Machine Name function in Web Services if so can I use this or do I need to store th...more >>

Newbie question. I have a VB.Net windows application which talks to database through a web service. This solution as a whole, works on my machine, works on the server (if I go to the server machine and run the exe from bin folder), however, it doesn't work if remotely calling the exe app on t...more >>

Dear developer, I'm developing a web service with VS .NET and using C#. And part of the webservice is to get data from database (by using SELECT), however, the result from the sql query i cannot parse it to string, how can i get the result from the SqlCommand..? dataset or datareader..?. pl...more >>

I have just finished an ASP.NET application that needs one (the last) remaining tweak. It writes two temporary files and then appends them to an SMTP message. ASP 3 had a function ... GetTempName .... to generate unique temporary filenames. Is there an easy standard way to generate...more >>

Hi, I am getting System.StackOverflowException when calling a web method. The web method executes fine until it hits the closing braces that is when the following StackOverflowException is thrown. "An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in mscorlib.dll". Ca...more >>

Hi, I am trying to access a webservice method from a vbscript. I have a .cs file generated for my webservice. I am not sure how to proceed from this point onwards.... I have tried generating .dll from .cs file using csc /t:library.... But I don't actuallly know how to call the method from ...more >>

Hi, I created a singleton class in my .NET app to solely handle opening and closing a connection to my database. I was wondering if this is a good design or not. And can someone confirm with me: that a singleton class has only one instance of itself correct? So if i have multiple users us...more >>

I am trying to configure trace listeners in my web config file for an asp.net web service , but I seem to be having a problem. I'm hoping someone will be able to spot what I'm doing wrong... It comes up with an error 'Exception in configuration section handler' Line 38: </businessStream> ...more >>

The web service I created is using the new EL Data App Block to handle connection to SQL Server (on separate machine). The dataconfiguration.config file specifies the user, password, Integrated Security = false, etc. When I run the web page that consumes the web service, I get the error "Lo...more >>

Hi, I'm a newbie in web services programing so I have a few questions: Is it possible to reduce size of xml output produced by .NET web service? I'm using SQLDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet, "Name") statement to fill dataset which is returned then by service. Web service type is DataSet. It works ...more >>

I want to create a web service that can create the users in the Windows Domain. I am using ADSI for that. Using ADSI i am able to create the users eaisly. But when i incorporated the code in the web service i get the unauthorized error. How should i confiure the web service so that it can c...more >>