My [web method] returns some obscure class which is somehow very complicated and follow an xml schema. I know by definition that web services send xml packed inside soap packets. Is there a way i can capture the xml return by my call and serialize it into a file? Many thanks in advance ...more >>

This code works find in a Winforms app and fails in a webservice. if(!EventLog.SourceExists(EventSourceName)) EventLog.CreateEventSource(EventSourceName,"Application"); What permissions should I give to the IIS user, or if that's not the issue, then what's wrong? ...more >>

I have a web service that I am calling from clients by simply clicking a URL. I would like to have the web service emit a javascript alert box on the client when complete. Is this possible? Any suggestions or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks. David...more >>

I am looking for a way to return the output of a web service as a string without the xml tags, just the raw data. I am calling the web service from an html page using a form post method. Specifically, I want to remove the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <string xmlns="http://www.com...more >>

Hello, i need to "consume" a web service . I'm interested into a particula web method. I know it return some xml data packed into soap (by definition). I imagine therefore that i can store whatever it returns into a C# object ,serialize it into xml and convert the xml file into a dataset. ...more >>

Hello everybody! I recently wrote a VB.Net webservice that retrieves some survey data from an oracle server and returns it as a strongly typed dataset. For some weeks everything worked fine but all of a sudden my customer claimed that my application ceased working after he had added some ne...more >>

I have a server that has an MS Access app - E:\MyCatalog\MyMSAccessApp.mdb Want users to use it via a Web Service (c#). Writing the WS is no problem. Only not sure of how to start MyMSAccessApp.mdb from C# code?? -- FL...more >>

Hi Folks, I have written a small webservice in which one of the methods returns a nodelist. The file compiles OK, but when I ry to run it I ge teh following error: "You must implement the Add(System.Object) method on System.Xml.XmlNodeList because it inherits from IEnumerable". Can anybody h...more >>

Is it possible to completely hide the WSDL that is generated by a myWebservice.asmx?WDSL request? I have used <webServices> <wsdlHelpGenerator href="new.aspx"/> </webServices> to customise the help page but want to go one further and completely hide the WSDL as the webserv...more >>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/10/ServiceStation/ In the downloadable code (not the article itself) for this great article about WSE Security, Aaron Skonnard has the following C# method ... [WebMethod] [return:XmlElement("WeblogEntry")] public ConfirmedWeblogEntry AddEntry( N...more >>

For an educational program I use a webservice for acces to a central database on a remote server. The webservice is is being accessed over https. So far this worked fine on the computersystems in the about 20 schools that are participating. On one school however, a problem occurs since they ...more >>

I am trying to receive form data posted from an html page to a web service method. In other words, a web page posts data as encrypt=multipart/form-data, the action is the webservice method, i.e. action=webservice/methodname. The form includes the contents of an uploaded file, i.e. a file bro...more >>

I am running a .net application on a PPC 2003 device that passes large amounts of data to/from a .Net webservice. Once the data is passed to the webservice we need to spin through all of the records looking for changes and the response time to the mobile device is prohibative. What I would l...more >>