Hola to all: We have created a service web that works perfectly while is invoked in the localhost of the machine of development or from the IE of the servant where we have published it. Nevertheless, if we create an application client who does a call to the same one, it returns the following ...more >>

I was finishing a design on a web service and at the review a question was raised about my using a SQLParameter array as a parameter to a method in the web service. The preference the person had was to use xml instead. If I understood him correctly he indicated that DotNet converts everything ...more >>

I've been writing Web services and assemblies that consume web services successfully for some time now. However, I need to consume a web service from a vendor that was written in Cold Fusion and it's not working... The Web Service reference gets created ok. It's name is CMWebService. The ...more >>

I am using vs 2003 and .net 1.1. I have a web service that does some work on a list of objects. Each object takes about a second to process. Lets say the client sends me a list of 1000 objects. This will take me 1000 seconds to complete. While processing I would like to be able to give the ...more >>

I have an app that consumes a web service. Everything runs fine here at the office and at some of my clients businesses but one of them uses a web proxy that redirects to port 8080 and it blows up. Is there a way to tell the web service to handle this without messing it up for everyone else....more >>

Hi all, I have a solution that contains a Web Site / Webservice project and one library project. The library project use a config file. When I build the solution, the config file is not copied in bin folder of web site in spite of the config file is flagged as "Copy Always". Someone coul...more >>

Hello, all. I'm very new to web services and I have a question about an .asmx page. How do I find out if I am allowed to used its methods? Is there a way you can tell whether this web service is open to the public or not? Thanks, ...more >>

I have the following assumptions about .NET webservices which I need confirmation/denial of: 1 - They are only instantiated when required & then a different instance for each request. 2 - If someone making a request causes an unhandled exception then their instance will die but it won't eff...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to make a method that returns a zip file to the client? when I invoke the service like http://webserver/webservice.aspx?GetFile the service compute some values and do a zip file and return to the browser or web client. Thanks for any tips ...more >>

I had the same problem, but find the solution here: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2003/12/04/41154.aspx I'ts for 2003, but still work's in 2005. hope helps! ...more >>

planning on using a X509 cert to validate that a business client is who they say they are. After we authenticate client, then we need a username and password to authorize users permissions. Should we store this in the SOAP header or just as part of the XML message structure? ...more >>

Hi, Can someone point me to an MSDN or other location where I can obtain the caller's IP Address? I'd like to put this in the "WebMethod" portion of the program. The intent is not so much for security, as it is for me to identify customers, and do not want to rely on them putting an "iden...more >>

I have defined a message contract (MsgRespData) and data contract(DataResponse) listed below. The data contract has two fields (System.String and System.Data.Dataset) and the message contract contains the data contract. The service contract has a single method that returns MsgRespData. Wh...more >>

I need to turn an asyncronous call into a syncronous one. I have a Web Applicaition which makes a call to web services to retrieve data. A new web service that I need to support work asyncronously...sort of. The way it is set up is I make a call into a third party web service, and get a jo...more >>

Hi, My requirement is that i want to know the clinet url in the web service.My authentication is based on the client url. I am gettign the IP address by using the System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress but i need the complete url of the client. Thanks in Advance. ...more >>

Usually I write the web service into my solution and can debug it with no problems. My current situation does not give me access to the source control so I want to keep the web service out of the main web solution. So in essence how do I debug the webservice? I can instantiate it in my web p...more >>

I use wsdl.exe to generate client code to call a web service. The actual web service is generated with the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard. I'm not sure this is particular to the BizTalk code but the calls to web methods pass parameters by ref so that I have to call it like: XmlDocu...more >>

Hi, I have a webservice which inherits additionally from an interface. This webservice provides implementation for the methods in the interface as well as provides addtiional methods. One of the methods of my assembly takes as parameter a type of the interface. My webservice instance s...more >>

Hi I am trying to replicate a price of Java code in .NET (the Java code is at the end of this post). Basically, I need to send a SOAP message to an HTTP server program (that happens to be written in Java). I have been Googling for the past 4-5 hours and found 3-4 samples but non of them...more >>

I'm experimenting some problems with the treeview, I developed a module within DotNetNuke that contains a treeview. It's working fine on my laptop at the office. I'm trying to get it back for a personal project. When running it seems that the WebResource.axd is not found, I removed the comp...more >>

Hello I have an existing web service in C# 2005 that utilizes Web Service Enhancments 3.0 with custom UsernameTokenManager authentication. I need to pass very large binary files to the web service for subsequent storage into a database. When we do this as part of a web service function, w...more >>

Does anyone know what the difference between the SoapDocumentMethod(OneWay=true)] and the [OneWay] attribute? According to the documentation, both seem to specifiy that a web service method is one way only and does not return any data (a void method essentially). Could someone please outli...more >>

Hi, I am kind of new to web services, not the idea, but actually implementing and consuming them. Currently I am being asked to develop a COM+ proxy that will fall between the presentation tier and services. This is a COM+ object used to interface the ASP communication with the financial c...more >>

Hi. Im just starting using SOAP Extensions to intercept web service requests to and from one server. I would like to know if there is a way to find what application made the request (for the outgoing requests) or even wich server it came from (in case of an incoming request), using the interc...more >>

All of the examples of web services in the books I have are using anonymous access and don't utilize sessions. Is there any material anywhere that shows how to authenticate and uses sessions in Web Services? Also, why two webServices forums? Thanks, T ...more >>

I followed some walk-throughs to create a web application using forms authentication. All is well. Basically, what happens is the user requests a page from the app, the app redirects the user to the logon page, they log in, the page creates an encrypted FormsAuthenticationTicket and attaches...more >>

All, We have an ASP.NET 1.1 application running on a W2K3 box that is consuming a web-service via HTTPS and we are receiving this error, BUT, it's only intermittent. It's not happening all the time. It just started happening a few days ago and there was no code changes made to the server. ...more >>

We have to put up some web services for a client and I am looking into WSE 3.0. While I'm sure it provide security it looks like it complicates development but I am wondering how much. I notice that WSE is not discussed much on this forum and when questions come up on it, they largely go u...more >>

What all compatibility issues are there when I expose a .NET web service (which uses datasets) to clients in platforms like Java and PHP? Some tools are avaialbale Anoop visit me: http://amazedsaint.blogspot.com ...more >>

How can I get session state for my user in a web service? I understand that with WinForm clients that this was not necessary, but now with Asp.net Ajax, I can access all the server objects but the session one. I can use the User object but it's a lot of extra work. Is Microsoft employees l...more >>

Running win2k advanced server (IIS 5. 0) with ASP.NET Framework 2.0 installed. I am developing with VS2003. I am trying to make an ASP.NET Webservice and I am having all sorts of trouble. ERROR: "The path '/svc/App_GlobalResources/' maps to a directory outside this application, which is...more >>

Hello everyone I am brand-new to webservices, but do have programming experience. I created a webservice that looks up the current lottery Jackpot amounts for several lottery games. I was hoping some of you experts could take a look at the webservices and make sure everything is looking lik...more >>

I need to supply some info in a Soap Header from the client and see it in a Soap Extension on the server in the BeforeDeserialize stage. The value of the header at this stage (inSoapMessage) is null but once in the .asmx the header it is set. Seems to suggest that BeforeDeserialize at server i...more >>

Hi folks, I would like to know that is there anyway to change the default serialization from XML to Binary? If not, what's the best approach to accomplish binary serialization under an ASP.NET Web Service? I've used the following format to do it so far, however, it's really painless: publi...more >>

All, I have a webservice webmethod which does returns a strongly typed dataset called MyStronglyTypedDataSet correctly. On the client side, when I cast the dataset to my strongly typed dataset, it throws the following error "Cannot convert type ClientConsumer.localhost.MyStronglyTypedData...more >>

Hi, I am using asp.net 2.0. The code below has a special case where it does not work. If I browse to a file or enter a fullpath (i.e. c:\x.x), then the OnServerclick method will be called as expected. This is true regardless of whether or not C:\x.x exists. However, if I just enter ...more >>

I am using MS Visual Studio 2005. I am building a web application. my initial data base connection was to SQL Express. I would like to change to SQL Server. I have defined my database and tables and would like to use them. In my APP_DATA it has file:///D:\ePims\App_Data\ASPNETDB.MDF, I would ...more >>