In one of the projects that we are executing, we are facing issues in WS Security interoperability between Java and .NET web services. I will describe the problem below and would like to know if any of you have faced any similar issues before and the way to go forward. Problem Statement ...more >>

Hi We are currently embarking upon a project to develop a suite of web services to allow the integration of a PDA application with our data server. Our current thoughts are to setup an SSL certificate on the server and use a custom username/password authentication mechanism for authenticati...more >>

Hi, I have a web service which is doing a lot of processing and taking 4-5 minutes to do so. The processing is split into several discrete steps and I would like for the service to be able to tell the client when it is done with each step. I have tried to do this in a couple of ways and ...more >>

Can I replace replication of text files over ftp with a web service? I'd like to elminate as much labor as possible, having the text files transfer as soon as new ones are deposited in a folder. Just need to know it's the right path to pursue. ...more >>

I have been a C# developer for a while now and have hear a lot of buzz about web services. I would like to try incorporating a web service in a new application I am developing, but have no clue where to start. I have tried checking out the Web Service Factory by Microsoft Patterns & Practices ...more >>

I have a web service that returns a String as part of the return . The String has embedded CR (x13) and LF (x10) in it. When the client code gets it though, the CRs have been stripped out and only the LFs are present. I saw an article that said I need to convert the String to Unicode (UTF-8...more >>

Are there any optimisations that can be made on a Windows 2003 server for a web service that has been deployed to it? Such as HTTP compression and any server or .Net settings. ...more >>

hi, We guys have implement a webservice wherein we authenticate the user by passing the same in soap headers. once is the user is authenticated we flag the user as authenticated in a session variable. My doubt is, is it the right way of implementing this. We are using inproc to store the sess...more >>

Hi, I have recently published an article on WCF at CodeProject http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/edujini_wcf_scart_01.asp It would be great the experts can provide a feedback on the same. Please note that this is my first article in the series. I have submitted Part-2 t...more >>

Hi guys, sorry if this seems stupid :( I've been assign to build an application that receives some text message via (MAIL or SMS), once I got the text I need, a search through a SQL Server database would be done to obtain a text that will be sent to a mobile phone via SMS, I've read some ...more >>

If you are deploying a web service and want request to go through a firewall... what will you set? Regards S ...more >>

Hi My C# webservice uses a file to store some (short) information between calls. One method creates/updates the content of a file, another reads it. What is the best method to avoid issues like "file is already opened by another process", etc between calls? Using Monitor.Enter(...) and Monitor...more >>

Hello Everybody! How do I catch unhandled exceptions in a Webservice application - .Net Framework 2.0? In Windows I can subscribe to the AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException event. In ASP.Net applications Application_Error event handler can be used. How do I get a similar function...more >>

Hello! Could you help me? How can I implement distributed transactions in Webservices, if I have Framework 1.1, WSE 2.0? Could you give me a few samples? Thanks. Best regards, Basil. ...more >>

VS2005 "Add Web Reference" "Unable to connect to the remote server", then successfully displays the service info. The Add reference button is disabled. The service also times out if I click on the Service Description link of the web service description page w/in this dialog.. Add reference ...more >>

In the constructor of my web service I have no access to the SoapContext (i.e. RequestSoapContext.Current). Not only that but I have implemented a customer UsernameTokenmanger.AuthenticateToken method and it doesn't call that either. I have the following setup in my web.config <configSections...more >>

I want to do this in my Web service: public static Guid ApplicationId { get { return _appId; } } And then in my external code do this: Guid webServiceGuid = MyWebServiceReference.MyWebServiceClass.ApplicationId; In other words, I want the Web reference that VS 2005 creates to disc...more >>

Hello everybody.. I hav some confusion regarding asymmetric encryption.As asymmetric encryption it there is one private key and one public key.So any data is encrypted using private key and the same is decrypted at client side using public key and vice-versa..Now i hav confusion like i.e. *...more >>

Hope everybody is doing OK. I have a web service that I call to encrypt sensitive information as credit cards, credentials etc. I am getting this error "Error'', hexadecimal value 0x11, is an invalid character." when I try to consume this from a client in this case a Web App. Is t...more >>

Disclaimer: I am extremely new to Web services and may very well be doing the wrong thing! Background: I have a Web service and a Windows Forms client app (VS 2005). The Web service exposes a method to accept a ScheduleEntry object, which is a class I have written. I felt doing this would b...more >>

Hi, I am developing a small webservice in Visual Studio (programmed in c#). Sometimes when I try to run my small tester application in Visual Studio (which tries to connect to my webservice) I get this error: There was an error downloading 'http://localhost:1639/TestService.asmx. Unable to ...more >>

Hi, I wonder if someone would help me please? I am trying to redirect a ..NET web service ASMX page to a new server (from https://localhost/webservices/syncdata.asmx for test) to https://vault1.secured-url.com/fundamentumfais/webservices/syncdata.asmx) so that my VB .NET standalone client ap...more >>

My webservice will involve sending/receving one of my parameters as a large XML string. If I use remoting I believe I can compress my stream, is this also possible using a WebService? Thanks Pete ...more >>

How can this issue be resolved (in the subject). bytecount is not a parameter in my functions. I read from some other groups that this is related to the IP change whil the transactions take place. Any solution for this? Thanks James...more >>

I am getting following error while calling " Service A" which been developed using WSE 2.0 from "Service B" which been developed using WSE 1.0 _message "Destination Unreachable --> WSE817: The &lt;To&gt; header must match the Actor attribute on this receiver. The &lt;To&gt; header conta...more >>