I've written a simple web service and deployed it to a server on my local network. However, when I try to add a web reference to it in a VS2005 project on my dev machine, I am unable to. When I use the "Add Web Reference" dialog and enter the URL to the web service, I get a "The page canno...more >>

I am configuring my web service with Web.config using windows authentication. I want to limit the web service permissions by using the allow / deny roles authorization. I have added the following in my web.config: <authentication mode="Windows" /> <authorization> <allow roles=...more >>

Hi all, tough question. Apologies for the cross posting but it is an interesting architectural problem and I think deserves a wide audience. What is the best way to extend web service proxy classes so we can add our own methods and properties? We have an application that passes...more >>

Hi All, I have made a webservice in C# and it works fine in my machine. I ran into a crazy problem when I wanted to deploy it in windows 2003 server. I have run "aspnet_regiis.exe -i" to make sure that the extensions for .asmx file etc are in place. I am getting http 404 when I give the url...more >>

Hi. We have developed a .NET web service. The service executes a SQL on the SQL server. The first call of the webservice takes very long but the other calls dont. Why is that and how can we speed that up? Regards, Marko...more >>

Hello I have a caching problem : my WebService is using a DB. I'm doing changes in the DB and they are not reflected in the result of the Web method. After like 30min, restarting IIS many times .... without touching the code, the changes appear in the result of the Web method. I try to a...more >>

Team, We need some guidance here. We are developing a web service to expose to external system. We are not sure which is the best path to take. We have multiple input fields required and a few output fields. We are thinking to either 1) Make all input fields one class and have one paramet...more >>

How do I validate messages? If my schema has a simpleType with facets like "minExclusive" and "maxLength" will the .Net framework validate the message before running the web service? This is what one of my server stubs look like. <System.Web.Services.WebMethodAttribute(), _ Syste...more >>

Hi: Is there a similar tool to WinHttpCertCfg for win2k? Any clue will be appreciated. Peter...more >>

Team, From a windows service, we consume a web service on another server and occasionally receive System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed:. For some clients we call, we do not see this as we ran into this previoulsy, made a posting, and received some suggested code to r...more >>

I am using the "contract first" design methodology. Contract First is design the WSDL first then design the server and client. However I must design my XSD/XML Schema before anything. I am developing my schema now. I have a version on my schema. However once I start the server side cod...more >>

Hello I am getting the following error message when I try and send an XML sting to a web service, I read somewhere that most web services prefer ascii and some throw errors when using unicode so I have changed the encoding but still cant get rid of the error. System.Xml.XmlException: '',...more >>

I used WSDL.exe to generate a client side web proxy for a web service, called the web service, got the results but an array returned by the web service is not in the results. However if I use "Add Web Reference" for the same service the same function works appropriately. Here is the clie...more >>

I have a schema that defines my messages and objects. I then have a WSDL that defines the web services. I have my sample XSD, sample WSDL, and the code generated from WSDL.exe. In the generated code from WSDL.exe, the "applicationList" object is not a array or "application", which is what i...more >>

Hi Friends, Could you please help me to find some free WSDL Editors? Which one should I follow, WSDL Editors or ASP.net WebServices for creating efficient webservices..? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Greetings, I'm trying to fix a web service client which has been implemented in a dailywtf worthy manner. I've decided to rip all the old code out and start again from the proxy generated by wsdl.exe. I've immediately run up against the same problem that spawned the original, deeply fascina...more >>

Hello! I would like to call a remoting object ( likely as a server activated singleton) from an IIS hosted webservice. Is this generally possible? Or is there a fundamental problem? I searched in the internet for a while, but didn't found code examples yet. Any links / source fragments ...more >>

I've got a network engineer who is absolutely anal about network security. He is questioning how secure web services are and I can't answer him with definitive answers. Do web services run over port 80? How about port 443? Are they secure? He's also paranoid about loginning in - is there a primer...more >>

I dont think my generated classes are creating a correctly formatted soap envelope I have entered the WSDL into the WebServices Studio app (app is from here http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=65a1d4ea-0f7a-41bd-8494-e916ebc4159c) and used the Studio to in...more >>

I've exposed a Data Access Layer with a web service using C#. When I run the project and click "invoke" the webservice times out in exactly 30 seconds. Where do I go to extend this time? I'd like to fully test this Webservice before I start coding the consumers for it. thanks! ...more >>

Hi, I have recently noticed that some of my web services when used/tested directly by calling the ..asmx page return the following result Invalid method name 'logusagereport', method names are case sensitive. The method name 'LogUsageReport' with the same name but different casing was...more >>

Please help guys, I wondering if there is a way to test a web service for availability. i.e a simple test to see if the webservice is up and running or available before I make the actual method call on the webservice...something like a ping in networking -- Faith as small as a musta...more >>

Hi im having a few problems consuming a SOAP::Lite web service. I think the problem is actually with the WSDL but im not sure. I have a SOAP::Lite client which works ok using the WSDL (which i = defined by hand). The .NET client on the other hand does not work at all and i get this = erro...more >>

Hi, I thought I'd just open a thread in an attempt to get peoples feelers with regards to multithreading vs Async Web Service processing. Of course Web Services makes it easy to do Async method calling, but what if you are already in a worker thread in a Windows Forms application when doin...more >>

Hi I am trying to convince my manager to buy a seperate server for webservices, however I am having real trouble convincing him of the business benefits. My arguments are based on the following a) seperate logical layer b) reduce proccessing on the current webserver c) allows for a mor...more >>

I am trying to add a webreference to a Web Service. I m connected to internet through Proxy server. I am getting following error. Anybody can help??/ Please. There was an error downloading 'http://www.webservicex.net/sendsmsworld.asmx?WSDL'. The underlying connection was closed: Unable t...more >>

Hi All How Can I Publish My XML Web Service To My Site My web site is www.Hageg.com Registered in www.webhost4life.com Any Id Tank you ...more >>

Hello, I am in the process of developing a web service - at the moment, it is not ready for development usage. However, the methods are defined. Is there a way to export the definitions to some sort of interface for other developers to use in the meanwhile? (Note I don't have a web serv...more >>

Hello, I am trying to write a client side SoapExtension to change the target web service url based on information from UDDI. Does any one know how to do it? I tried to set the url in the SoapHttpClientProtocol (SOAPClientMessage.Client), but it did not do anything. I know you could c...more >>

I've seen some different posts about people having problems with \r\n being replaced with \n. I haven't seen any resolution, so what are my alternatives to not having this replaced? Lance Johnson ...more >>

I have a class "product" in a Web Project with the ensamblie. In otherside I Have a Web Service and I want to return an product class object, but when I want to received this object in the Web Application I have an error saying "can't not convert product in product". Someone can help me. ...more >>

Hi, I would like to send an XML document as a parameter to an asp.net web service. Obviously I could just serialize it and transfer it as a string but that seems a bit of a waste, given that SOAP is XML already. is there any simple way to include my own XML as a parameter to a web ser...more >>

We are attempting to make a request to a web service (we will refer to = it as XXXServices) hosted on a Web Logic server from a C# SOAP client. The = server responds with a 401 Unauthorized error (that appears in plain text), and causes the client to crash. This C# code has been deployed both...more >>

Hi, I have a small piece of code that is used by both a web page and by a web service. I'd like some different behaviour depending on whether it is called by the page or by the service. In the piece of code, I can determine the calling source (page/service) by checking to see if System....more >>

I have the simple Hello World web service running on my development machine (XP Pro SP2). I'm using VS2005. I'm able to access it from my machine. When I try to access it from another machine (also XP pro SP2), using the URL: "http://nav:24035/WebServ/Service.asmx?op=HelloWorld", I get a "Cann...more >>

Hi, I'm working on an implementation of the TPC-App benchmark, it is very similiar to the TPC-W benchmark (a number of threads emulating businesses calling the web services of the server by https). TPC-APP specifies that a new SSL-Handshake(SSL-Session creation) must be made in each business...more >>

Before I called a method from a web service, I want to check that the web service is available. Something like : If WebServiceIsOk then.... How can I do this ? Craig...more >>

I understand how to change the URL of a web service at run-time. But, if I am using a web service in a windows application, what is a good way to inform the application of the current location of the web service, without recompiling and redistributing the application? ...more >>

Hi all. I am using W2K3, .NET2 on a machine running AD and Exchange. I started getting the message below last week. I googled the error and not much was returned, but I did find this; http://forums.asp.net/918725/ShowPost.aspx I tried both items in the forum and it works for a few hits then...more >>

I changed the server after creating a web service (VB.NET), and the WSDL and SOAP headers for the new site's web test page still are showing the old server's name. What code or are configuration do I need to add/change to fix this problem? Jo...more >>

Hi, I need to send a mail message from a web service. If i execute the code from Windows Form Application the message is sended correctly but if i execute the same code from a web service an exception is throwed "Could not access 'CDO.Message' object". That's the code: Public Sub Send...more >>

Hi all, I am creating a webservice to accept SOAP messages, parse the message and send a SOAP response back to the client accessing my web service using WSE-2 in ASP.NET. I am creating a class which derives from "SoapReceiver" class and do the processing here. To register ...more >>

The best way to describe my problem is to show some code.... public class Test { int a; public Test() { } } public class Test1 { int b; public Test1() { } } public class Test2 { int c; public Test2() { } } [WebMethod] public void test(Test objTe...more >>

Hi all, I'm using 2005 VB.NET to create a web service that validates an xsd and xml file but need to get the positional flatfile into an xsd format. Has anyone tried this before or know of some links that can help? Thanks, Bill...more >>

I am creating a web service which will be available on only one of two servers at a time. Both servers will have exactly the same services running but one will be a backup which just waits doing nothing. They will both have WSDL files on with the only difference being the <soap:address locati...more >>

What's the difference between XML Web-services, SOAP Web-Services, etc...? ...more >>

Hello, I have a project that contains a WebService that works great when connecting to it on my Localhost. Once we post the files to the test web server, all of the pages that do not touch the webservice work fine. However, the ones that do touch it get the following error: The reques...more >>

I already have the SOAP message built as a file on the server. All I want to do is post that XML to the Webservice URL. Also, how would I get the returning SOAP message? thanks, lee ...more >>

i have developed a web service which return dataset on dev machine, when i invoke the web service from the same machine it works fine, but when i deploy the web service to another machine, and invoke the web service from my dev machine, the web service become error, it return "Server was unable ...more >>

Hi all, HttpWebRequest, and SoapHttpClientProtocol both expose a ClientCertificates property, which can hold multiple client certificates, but on the service side, it can only receive one client certificate, since it derives System.Web.Services.WebService class, and it's Context.Request.Cli...more >>