I build a system where a Windows service iterates through a file and sends each line in the file as a record to a database, by calling a web service asynchronously. It runs on a w2k server. What I notice is: When the web service gets called, there seems to be a slowness and potential...more >>

Hi All.. i need help in this issue... Public Attributes & Properties for shared classes amoung webservice are accessible, but how can we call the methods. i have a webMethod that returns a custom datatype to the client, where i need to call a method of that returned class. here is an example :...more >>

Hi all: Its easy for us to use the wdsl.exe to generate a proxy or server side stub from the .wsdl file. but when .wdsl file its not just one file, it import another .wdsl file and schema file, the wsdl.exe cannot generate any outcome. I read from the article said its the limitation o...more >>

If I build a web service using the WS-Security module within the WSE, can application that do not use .Net access the web service?(As long as they provide the proper security parameters like UsernameToken) ...more >>

I have written a client to a web service. I use ASP.NET 1.1 for the client. It worked until I tried to send accented characters. Then the service answered that my signature is not valid. I was told by the people running the service that their host takes ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) and nothing else. ...more >>

Hi, when I call my webservice from local it works fine. But, when I copy it to the web site and call it then, the following error occurs. I have no idea :(. System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: MatthiasRusche.WinExpe...more >>

Hi! I am new to web services. AFAIK, the advantages of using web services are : interoperable, easy integration and reuse, text based protocols and data formats - SOAP,WSDL,XML. Also, I read this article: http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=Top5WSMistakes I agree with...more >>

Hi, I have created an extension that only runs on the serverside and not on both the client and the server side. I have to in the BeforeDeSerialize fix my dateTime so the deserialisation dosent destroy my time when using timezone. I do this by modifying the timezone info inthe XML stream ...more >>

Hello, When I'm uploading an file to a JRun WebServer (third party) with a Windows Forms application, l always get an TimeOut while uploading, all other request who doesn't request an post are going ok? Why? I've tried almost everything. I also tried the KB888528 solution but this also does...more >>

Hi, I'm new to WebServices, and I'm doing some tests (with a small VB.NET-application) to know the performance-difference between a WebService and the 'normal'-way of getting data (just connecting directly with a SqlDataAdapter to the SQL Server). The WebMethod simply gives a DataSet back, an...more >>

Hi Guys: Anyone have idea on how to convert .wsdl file to a .asmx file? Thanks -- Can You?You Can. ...more >>

Hello, On one of our servers, I am trying to install IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET. During the installation process, all files appear to copy fine but when the progress bar gets to the Installing IIS portion, I receive a few messages stating that the files could not register properly in the web serv...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to call a web service on the same machine (as the client code) through a dotnet client and I get the following error. "The underlying connection was closed: The proxy name could not be resolved, verify correct proxy configuration" Proxy is not enabled. SSL is not ena...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to access a few webservices (asmx) which are stored on the same remote computer (e.g.: test.name.com). Now the first asmx which I add gets a namespace: com.name.test and the second one get a namespace: com.name.test2 whatever I do this is always like this. Now the f...more >>

Team, Hoping you can help. I have a web service I develop. In the code behind, we throw an exception in some cases. When I run the webservice on my PC, the exception is displayed in my browser. However, when I run a test on this web service on a server it has been deployed to no such exp...more >>

I am using MS SOAP client provided with SOAP Toolkit 3.0. I have set the timeout for this application to 20 seconds. On some occasions, when there are network problems and the call to the webservice is not able to complete succesfully, the client waits for 50 seconds before returning an error...more >>

I have designed the messages that my web service will use as XSD files and then created .NET classes from them using the xsd.exe utility. These classes reside in an assembly called "MessageLibrary". My web service references this assembly and defines some web methods that take these classe...more >>

Hi, I get the following error message whilst consuming the web service 'The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server. Any help much appreciated. Andrew...more >>

Hi, I am currently on a project where one site needs to send the user credentials to another site, through web services. Scenario: * "User 1" will authenticate to "Site A" using NTLM ("Site A" provides front-end presentation of data) * "Site A" will request confidential information abo...more >>

I wrote a simple test webservice in .net but when I use the test page to try and run the webservice. IE does not recognize the output as an XML document, ie it doesn't automatically format the XML so that you can collapse or expand nodes. How can I get IE to recognize my webservice's output...more >>

I am needing a web service to be single threaded. Is this possible? Any ideas would be helpful...more >>

Hi all, Is it better from a performace point of view to have: Many WebServices with a couple of web methods each or: A Couple of web services with many web methods each of course this is ignoring any logical groupings or actual functionality of the service Pete....more >>

We have a smart device application running on handhelds(Symbol MC9000G). The backend is Oracle and a middle tier web services development done in Vb.net. We use pessimistic Locking due to specific business needs When such a lock is made for a transaction (this code is in the web service) an...more >>

I have created a SOAP extension that can be enabled using a SoapExtensionAttribute. This attibute holds two additional properties that are used to configure the SOAP extension. This works fine, but I often want to use the SOAP extension from my web.config file and I have no idea how to confi...more >>

Hello... The quality of reply is quite bad in this forum.....many post has not reply.... I/We need Microsoft technical team involve directly in this forum and put some effort to give us HELP. If there is possible to do like borland team B did in their news group... Please reply ''YES'' ...more >>

Hello.... My web service cannot connect to My MsSql DB. error message... ---------------------- An unhandled exception of type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException' occurred in system.web.services.dll Additional information: Server was unable to process request. --> Login failed...more >>

Hallo, I have written web service with method: public long DoSomething(string base64String) { try { return doit(); } catch { return -1; } } and client written also in c# that this webmethod is calling private void clientmethod() { ... ...more >>

Hello folks I couldn't consume the webservice outside our firewall using DOT NET windows application, Since the above application has to go through a proxy server and connect to the internet Is there any way we can pass proxy server, proxy port and proxy username information before invoking the ...more >>

Hello folks, I couldn't consume the webservice outside our firewall using DOT NET windows application, Since the above application has to go through a proxy server and connect to the internet. Is there any way we can pass proxy server, proxy port and proxy username information before invoking ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to create a web service which will basically interact with the database. I am using windows forms (C#), which will be consuming or accessing the web service. Now the problem is I want to use Client's userid/password to access the database. Does this mean I have to pass each an...more >>

Hi, I'm new to web services and I'm having some trouble figuring out how to define a custom object that works through the webservice. For example, I have the following on the server side: public class Token { private string firstID; private string secondID; public string getFirst...more >>

Hi, I need to write a small app for a PalmOS (Treo 600 smartphone) in ASP.NET (Server side) Any web site that talk about this? Thanks! G. ...more >>

I want to make some of my web methods avaible but basically want to hide them in the WSDL file so not just everyone can consume them. Is there a way using attributes to still have certain web methods exposed in the WSDL and others not? Or is there a way to provide a customer WSDL file where ...more >>

Hello, I'm not sure this is the right place for this question, but hopefully somebody can help. I'm trying to build an in-memory XML file and submit it to an URL. Here's a sample code: //==================================================== HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequ...more >>

In a client application a simple webservice (add/multiply) was added to solution panel but proxy methods do not appear. WSDL description in solution panel follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <wsdl:definitions xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:soap="http:...more >>

i have a problem in accessing registry from web service i made a web service that call a function to access registry The web service contain the following code Dim RegKey As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey RegKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine RegKey = RegKey.OpenSubKey(KeyPath,...more >>

Hi, We are developing a java client that need to call a .net web service in another server. I have 2 methods in .net WS,one returns a dataset and other returns a boolean. We have to use plain java client(not a java WS) using httpconnection or URL Connection. I'm able to recieve a string v...more >>

hi! i have created a document class. I have a .net client application and a web service. Both of them using same object model and referencing a doctypes.dll file. But when i want to run a client application getting error InvalidCastException. I deleted class declaration in reference.vb in w...more >>

Hi, I need to create a web service that returns to the caller his IP. I have done this in the past for callres taht are running ASP.NET but not from a winform (VB.NET) app. I have read in oter forms that this can not be done? Any ideas? Thanks! George. ...more >>

I’m new to WS. I have two MS Press books in front of me : XML Web Services Step by Step and Understanding Web Services Specifications and then WSE. The prior suggests to secure WS by using IIS and ASP.NET techniques (<authorization> in web.config). The later, of course, describes WS-Securit...more >>

hi i have a struct like struct A{ int _size; A* _pArray; } i truely want to export this struct and use it as a parameter in my methods of my web service. unfortunately, when i try to comple the code i get an error from ATL (attributes provider) is there any way to do it and export the s...more >>

Hi Guys, In my company, we have java application which is runing in unix platform, and we have web service application build by microsoft .net runing in IIS in microsoft windows 2000 platform. Jave application needs to call method in web services which are overloading function. Now We got err...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create a web service client in C# but I get stuck at one of the first steps. When adding a Web reference to the Visual Studio project; I get this error (this is a translation, the English terms might not be exact) : "Error in the custom tool : Impossible to import WebSer...more >>

hi All I have a reference to a web servrice in the data access layer. something strange happen with this web service, when calling to one of the web method, it works fine, but not the other web method in the same web service class. I got "Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SO...more >>

Hello NG, i try to call a webservice-function with two parameters: wsfunction(a as AsyncCallback, b as IAsyncResult) as IAsyncResult The callbackaddress is a simple http-address. How I define as Datatyp AsyncCallback and IAsyncResult? Who can help? Best regards Michael ...more >>

Hello, I have some web services which return quite large XML documents. I want to invoke the services and retrieve the raw XML in order to persist it through an XML database. I don't want to create a bunch of meaningless proxy classes. It seems like this should be quite simple; I would app...more >>

Hi all, I have made a webservice that returns an XML, but sometimes the connection is so slow and there is a lot of data to be returned. I would like to know if it is possible to send this data compressed, and how to do it. Thanks. Jose Luis....more >>

I am trying to call a web service through the vb code but when i m getting a error 403 that is a forbidden access. how can i fix this problem..thanks a lot...more >>

HI, In my client application (a CSharp Windows App), I invoke a webservice function. Because these client applications are sometimes running half-way around the world from the server, and sometimes their Internet connection is, well, crappy, the webservice call sometimes times out! Is th...more >>

I am using remoting via TCPChannels. Sometimes, I get this message: "Server encountered an internal error. For more information, turn on customErrors in the server's .config file." I don't have a web.config file as I am basically using this example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defa...more >>