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 >>

using c# in a windows application. I am developing a webservice to run on our extranet SSL server. The company policy is that this server log everybody in. I am going to use the WSE security, but what is stoping me now is the first basic auth login handshake. The webservice works on ...more >>

I have a web service which accepts some data and stores that data in the database. My question is should this web service talk directly to the data access layer (DAL), which populates the database or should there be an extra layer between web service and the DAL? If there should be an extra layer...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to upload roughly 20-30k of binary data up to my webservice. At first, I just took my byte array and encoded it as a base64 string and passed it into my webservice. However, sometimes the data gets truncated (I'm not sure what the exact length where truncation occurs is, ...more >>

I'm cross posting from mscom.webservices.general as I have received no answer there: There has been a number of recent posts requesting how to satisfactorily enable BASIC authorization at the HTTP level but as yet no fully useful answer. I too have been trying to call an apache/axis webs...more >>