I have a distributed system that processes documents. There currently is an Async Webservice in place and this works fine. My customer is requesting a Sync Webservice call. I am trying to determine the best way to implement this. I thought I would have the Sync call to enter a sleep s...more >>

Hi all, I am supposed to be doing a tech design for the web services that we will be building for our application. I have no idea as to what to do in it. Any anyone done this before or has any idea what could be incorporated. Thanks....more >>

My skills are in VB. Net/SQL Server and i have touched on PDA development mainly as a tester. i am aware of using webservices for functionality. I have been given a task to develop a solution which enables users of handheld devices to go out to various sites and record information and send th...more >>

when I try consuming this method the method just hangs, if I look at the processes I can see that the wscript is running but it just seems to hang. shouldn't this be fairly trivial calling an external from within a webservice ? [WebMethod (Description="Changes Password calls Change_Pa...more >>

Hi: What would be some standard convention to follow when writing web services for return types for .NET only data types? I initially wrote my web service that returns some XML as System.XML.XMLDocument and some lists as System.Data.Datasets. I realized this would be precluding any non-.N...more >>

I created a Web Service from a WSDL that come from Java (apache soap). It contains the definition of Vector as complex type: <schema targetNamespace="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/> <...more >>

Hello¡¡¡ We are trying to decide a solution, to transmit files from one machine to other. The files are put in a directory by a ftp server. We are going to use Web Services and http, because of requirements. One machine is a Win2000 IIS4 computer. I think there could be 2 solutions: ...more >>

I've never used C# nor have I created Web Services, so I am in the process of finding tutorials on the web and going through them. I found this one over at code project: http://www.thecodeproject.com/cs/webservices/myservice.asp I am presented with this method: [WebMethod] publi...more >>

I have a C# Web Service that some of the methods (ones that return integers) work and some do not (the ones that return a DataView. Here is some code in the WebService that is giving me the problem. The oAllData function gets run on the initialization of the class. DataSet oAllData ...more >>

I am using a WebClient.Upload File method on the Client side and, to accept posted files on the Server side, I am using an ASP.NET page with the following code: void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { foreach(string f in Request.Files.AllKeys) { HttpPostedFile file...more >>

I am new to .NET, but not new to WS or development. I am eager to use VB.NET as a (relatively) rapid WS development tool. One of the .NET features that helps accomplishing that is the the canned testing architecture while developing a WS. I have my environment (WindowsXP Pro, IIS 5.1, VB....more >>

Hi, I created a web service using vb.net. It takes 3 parameters, connects to a database using a *.udl file under C:\ directory, executes some SP's on the database, does some calculations and returns a string value. On my local computer, it works fine and gives the result correctly. However, ...more >>

Hi, Using an IIS/ASP.NET webservices and WinForms clients, Is there any way to spy SOAP interactions between client and server? I want to see the xml text of SOAP requests and reponses. Thanks, Alan ...more >>

I wrote a .NET/c# webservice which I then needed to consume from java server pages. The simplest ( and best ) solution I found, was some code to open a socket, and send a SOAP message directly to it...constructing the SOAP message with a class that builds the string. Then I parse the retu...more >>

HI, All, I have a web service doing a string search. It has an operator and a searchValue field. The operator is defined as an attribute and required. The xml is as below. <!-- SearchStringField --> <simpleType name="SearchStringFieldOperator"> <restriction base="xsd:string"> <en...more >>

Hello all, I have a web method that accepts compound (non-primitive) arguments. I know that the method should be applied using SOAP protocol. One of my clients does not know how to sent SOAP requests, and know only to use GET or POST. I know that the SOAP protocol is based on POST. from the m...more >>

I have a web service that I need to return HTML code, and I can't seem to get rid of the XML tags that surround it. Right now I'm just writing the HTML into a return string, and am getting something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <string xmlns="http://HTMLSERVICE.com"><h...more >>

Hello! Is it possible to stream a word document to a browser via webservice? Can I use Response.BinaryWrite method or is there some other method in webserices to stream data? The help is very much appreciated! Thank you! Peter...more >>

Hi When I try to get reference to my remotely hosted web service, I get the following error; Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'localhost.Global'. Source Error: Line 1: <%@ Application Codebehind="Global.asax.vb" Inherits="localhost.Global" %> Source File: d:\webs\...\globa...more >>

Hello, Iam trying to send x.509 certificate of the client to sign a soap message request and encrypt it with the server's x.509 certificate in a secure conversation policy based. I somehow encounter this problem when retrieving the client's certificate. It is located in the current user per...more >>

Hello, Iam trying to do the secureconversation sample in wse2. I have different web service here which will transfer an xml document to the client. I have tried using the username token for signing from the client side as in the sample. It gives me error that the "The message does not confo...more >>

I would like to return a class which encapsulates an ArrayList. The ArrayList actually has all the data I need. Can this be done? ...more >>

Hi, Since moving the web site to a new server one of the buttons on the aspx web page does not respond at all. I suspect it might be a postback problem since there is no error reported on the page or on the IE status bar. I tried it on a debug executable it still did not report any er...more >>

Hello group, excuse me if this is a newbie question and asked a thousend times. I need to make a xml-rpc call to a server running python. The service has no wsdl I can use, but there is a manual with the functions and methods documented. Is there any sample you could provide how to call the ...more >>

I need to write a WS call that will transmit an arbitrary XSD in a WS call... The XSD is independent of the call itself... Has anyone done this before? I would be grateful for any suggestions... Thanks! -Rob....more >>

I'm using the webservice I've created: http://www.emergencyreporting.com/ERSWebService/ERSDispatch.asmx When building a client VB.NET app, and adding a web reference to the above file, I see that the client is creating extra methods. For my IncidentOpen method, the client is adding methods l...more >>

I'm developing a web site with asp.net, mainly vb on a Windows 2003 server. Quite often the web site stops responding for 15-20 seconds. A web page that usually take 2 seconds to produce takes forever. During this time,the w3wp process takes 100% of the CPU time. I'm using only asp.net, no ext...more >>

I just recently updated a client of ours with 3 Windows Update items. IE 6 SP1, GDI+, and .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and the webservice that I was at least able to browse to before I can't even browse to now. The SP1 for .NET was supposed to include a fix for the certificate issue I was having and ...more >>

I am writing a login function that needs to authenticate against the users in the Active-Directory. Can someone point me out where the Namespace is for Active-Direcotry...more >>

I want to implement an authentication to my ASP .NET web service. Passing userId and password as parameter to all my web methods seem unreliable to me. Any ideas how to do it? TIA ...more >>

Hi all! I have developed a webservice that writeing and reading files in different folders. I need to be able to start and stop this service by using a web interface (start and stop button). But I can´t find any way to this. Any ideas? And where can I see if this service is running? /M...more >>

Hello I love Visual Studio, and the web servcie support intially looks pretty great. However when I start studying Service Orientated Architectures (SOA) which are based around a Message paradigm, I find that there is little or no support. Visual Studio assumes that we are using RPC style ...more >>

I need to call one .exe file in Web Services. I try-> [WebMethod] public string HelloWorld() { Process.Start("filename.exe"); return "Hello World"; } but it's don't work. Can I run .exe file? ...more >>

Hi all. I created simple web service with C# and run it on Win2000 XP sp2. Service has two simple [WebMethods]. I test it with my C# client and IE. Now I want to create VC++ 6 application and talk to web service with SOAP SDK lib. It's good so far, but SOAP SDK samples are using link to ...more >>

Hi, I found this web service http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx This is my test code Dim test As New wsExchangeRate.CurrencyConvertor Dim testt As New wsExchangeRate.Currency test.BeginConversionRate(wsExchangeRate.Currency.AED, wsExchangeRate.Currenc...more >>

Hi all, i have one problem with a method of an xml web service that use a datetime data type input variable, and may be all is caused by international settings. The XML web service (localized in italy, with italian settings) have the following method: MYXWS.MyMethod(input_var as datetime) ...more >>

I have two different scenarios: 1. I have an application that calls a web service and passes an object. Web Service takes that object and does some stuff with it, which could take some time. It seems to me that in this case it would be appropriate to use asynchronous web service. A...more >>

hello all i'm just wondering if somebody has experienced the usage of the "Webserver Behaviour" which enables client-side script to invoke remote methods exposed by Web Services. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/webservice/webservice_node_entry.asp any ti...more >>

Suppose, Microsoft were to release all of its products on Linux tomorrow. On the client side, it would include M$ Office. On the server, SQL Server. What would the effect be? -- http://home.earthlink.net/~jabailo...more >>

I have created a web service that access a database and retrieves record then returns them as a dataset. I am having a problem coding a client application to use the dataset. Here is the relevent code: Web Service Code: Public Function Query(ByVal computername As String) As DataSet Dim co...more >>

Hi, I've been trying to post some XML using the above the component but keep getting the following Exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0xC00CE56D) The code is: _postSystem = New MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP40 xmlString = FetchXMLClientDetails(clie...more >>

sorry that i jump on at the end of the thread - but isn't this the same as setting the credentials on the proxy`? like proxy.Credentials = new NetCredentials("user", "pass") ? --- Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor http://www.leastprivilege.com nntp://news.microsoft.com/micros...more >>

Hi all, The problem is as follows: I need to authorize a user: through a WS; if a setting is on, the webservice will look in the local "database", if the setting is off it will connect to the server ip that is set in the configuration and call the same WS to check the user in the remote "databa...more >>

Hi, I´ve developed a webservice, but now, how can install it in other computer? thanks ...more >>

hi, aspnet is the default - you don't have to do anything for that. regarding ssl http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/secmod/html/secmod30.asp --- Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor http://www.leastprivilege.com nntp://news.microsoft.com/micros...more >>

Hi, the account under which the asp.net worker process is running has to have NTFS rights to the files/directories you are writing under iis5/5.1 this is usually a account called ASPNET under IIS6 you can configure that using app pools (the default is Network Service) IIS authenticat...more >>

Hello all, I'm trying to do something which I believe is very normal, standard sort of requirement. I want to secure access to a web service across the Internet using username/password on the server, then impersonate the account on that server. Option 1 - set IIS to basic authentication, w...more >>

Hi, you are right - Windows needs the password in plaintext to impersonate a user (having to call LogonUser, which requires a password). Thinking about it - it is the only way Windows can do it. So if you want to use the Windows infrastructure that's already there you have to combine option ...more >>

I'd like to send invoice information from client program to web service and then transfer it to xml-file there. The best way to do this could be writing all the information in xml-format but to send it as a string. But then how can I create an xml-file out of this string easily? xmlreader read...more >>

hi, the .net tools are not really suited for that kind of approach, which is called ContractFirst. but it is possible. first you have to generate some .net types from the schema your webservice has to conform to. use the xsd.exe tool included in the sdk with the /classes switch. use the ...more >>