Can anyone provide some guidance, example, and/or links for configuring = a client behind an authenticated proxy to access a web service via the = Internet? Thanks, Sam --=20 _______________________________ Sam Santiago ssantiago@n0spam-SoftiTechture.com http://www.SoftiTechture.com ...more >>

Hi there, I have a small webservice, which returns an object array. It works fine on the browser, but got the following error on the client windows form application: An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in system.web.services.dll Additional infor...more >>

Good Morning and Happy Wednesday! I've got a web service that exposes a method that takes an string input parameter that specifies an executable on the server that starts a process. These processes should runs in a Windows window. The process loads and runs under the ASPNET user account fi...more >>

Hi I need to develop a webservice to send xml files with a user account and password. Actually, I'm using ASP, but I don't know what do I need to do this. Please, can somebody help me, and tell me what do I need. ...more >>

Hi guys, I'm using vs2005 beta 2 to create an ASP.NET web service.. I'm having major problems using my web services. I've even tried creating a new one and running the default code (i.e. Hello World) and I get this error: Server Error in '/QNSEmulator' Application. The resource cannot be f...more >>

i am trying to write a .NET client of an Apache web service; thus there is no WSDL document. one difference between the SOAP Header that is generated by the .NET SOAP serializer is that .NET uses the www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema. and Apache uses the www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema. is there a way to f...more >>

I have been using "XMLHTTPClass" in an asp.net module. It is properly referenced and was working up until recently. Now it is failing with the error message "QueryInterface for interface MSXML2.IXMLHTTPRequest failed" when I attempt to use the open method of this object. I would appreciate hel...more >>

Hi guys, I'm making a webservice that will be used by a pocketpc app. I want to be able to keep an instance of some things (there are 2 collections and possibly a database connection). Is there a way to keep the state of the server? So that these collections are not lost between method cal...more >>

I have a web method that returns a string. When I return a string that has a carriage return and line feed in it ("\r\n") on the client side I only receive a string including the line feed ("\n"). The carriage return disappeared. Thanks for any help....more >>

I want to cache a dataset on a server via a web service. I was thinking of caching it in a session object and returning the session ID as a string in the web service back to the windows client. Then I want the windows client to call a aspx page passing in the sessionID as a parameter and ther...more >>

Hi, I'd like to store X509 cetificates in a central location (file server, database, etc), and load them when needed, is it practical ? and in term of implementation, can this be achieved by subclass 'securityTokenManager'? has anyone done something similar and shed some lights on it? thanks, ...more >>

Up to this point, our application has been using Windows File Sharing to transfer files to and from our application document repository. This approach does not lend itself toward a secure environment and so we are in the process of imposing a WebService gateway between our application client ...more >>

Hello. If I use a web service that I created through a custom control on a windows form it works fine. However, if iput this control on a webform usinf the <object...classid..> label, i get an security error when i call the web service saying: "The application attempted to perform an opera...more >>

Hi, I have two XML web services originally created via WSDL docs/.NET tool, which have essentially the same methods and data types, and which work fine when individually run. However, when I try to "daisy-chain" them (because they eventually will have to run on different systems, with one ...more >>

The have been said that XLANG using in Web-services with BizTalk integration. But there is some ways to use Xlang and web-services created like interface/working thread/realization w/out using BizTalk? Could smb demystify where XLANG could be applied? --- WBR, Michael Nemtsev ...more >>

Hi, In my web service, it has to return an image from a file located at a specific virtual dir. Another concurrent app, running on the server, is periodically modifying that particular file. I'm now confronted with the fault situatiion that my client crashes the moment it tried to request ...more >>

Hi, I have created a Web Setup and Deployment project for my web service and I have two questions that I can't seem to resolve. Please help. 1. The file System editor puts everything under the inetpub directory. Is there any way for me to change this directory? I would like to put everythi...more >>

Hi, I'm doing some research on webservices using 2 way SSL. It is Application-to-Application security. Basically SERVER_SAP is hosting the webservice and SERVER_CLIENT is consuming the webservice using a console. So 2 way SSL means that SERVER_CLIENT need to present his certificate to SE...more >>

Hello! /language: option of wsdl.exe says that it accepts a fully-qualified name of a class implementing System.CodeDom.Compiler.CodeDomProvider. Although I was able to provide MCppCodeProvider provider only (that needs to use too complicated string): /language:Microsoft.MCpp.MCppCodePr...more >>

I have the CacheDuration attribute set for 60 seconds as show below: <WebMethod(CacheDuration:=60, Description:="Method to demonstrate caching")> _ Public Function CachedString(ByVal inputInt As Integer) As String Return "The time is " & DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString End F...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create a WebService with VisualStudio 2003 ... New Project -> Visual C# Project -> ASP.NET Web Service but I always get the error message: 'A connection to the server could not be established.' So I open the IIS console, go to Default Web Site and Start/Stop the service, ...more >>

Hello, I was looking into the WSE 2.0 and noticed DIME which really peeked my interest. Is DIME worth looking at (will it be enhanced, industry supported, etc) or should I stick with sending large binaries as base64? thanks... ...more >>

Hi, I read that if one needs to be able to authorize access to resources based on the caller's identity, one should set up the server to perform Windows authentication with impersonation. But how can I do this when I grant access to my webserver to, let's say 2, different organizations over...more >>

is there a way to view the SOAP message in a client after it is serialized (before it is sent out) or deserialized (after a reply is received)? i am using the proxy that is created by VS.NET2003 when adding a web reference thanks m ...more >>

Hello, I'm a newbie who hopes they have come to the correct place. Basically, I want to develop a web service for consumption by .NET program (hopefully C#). The performance of the service would have to be able to be very fast in response and be somewhat reliable (i.e. not abending every 2 ...more >>

Hi all.. I have a WebMethod with a parameter defined as DateTime. When I call that webservice, I get this error: System.FormatException: The string '07/24/2005' is not a valid AllXsd value. It seems that dates aren't recognized. I tried using several date formats, for example, dd/mm/yyyy,...more >>

i all, I have a web service in a Windows 2003 Server machine and ASP.NET 2.0. The website has windows integrated security so that, in order to allow domain users to connect to it, I add permissions using Front Page Server extensions. What about calling the web service over the Internet? do...more >>

my soap messages to a remote site are failing. as far as i can tell the only differences between what my SOAP message looks liek and what they want are in the SOAP envelope SInce they don't have a wsdl doc i created a localhost site based on their DTD documetns. How do I configure my site ...more >>

hi there i am trying to consume a simple hello world webservice on my PDA, I keep get this error : unable to connect to the remote server , i am using the address http://127.0.0.1/webservice1/service1.asmx, i even tried the server name instead of ip address, i know i should not use loal...more >>

Under IIS 6, what would be the suggested approach of a .net web service calling a backend socket server that would handle a high transaction volume? Can I just create the socket, send the data, receive the response and close the socket in the webMethod? Should I create a pool of socket connect...more >>

In the process of building a SOAP client for a third-party service, I have created a "dummy" service running on my local machine to debug against. I have the dummy service working pretty well, but I've discovered that the WSDL for my service has a subtle difference from the third-party servic...more >>

I have a Java-based (Axis) Web Service and am trying to write a .NET client in C#. I run into two different problems. 1. if the WSDL was generated using the Axis defaults then .NET cannot update its web reference. It complains that datatype 'String' is undefined. Strangely, the WSDL returned...more >>

Team, We have created a web service for a client to call. In testing, client is asking us to provide the SOAP XML we recevie when they call our .Net web service. I have not done this before. I simply have access to the parms they pass within my webmethod. Can someone help me with accessing ...more >>

How do you send a Connection: Close header? We have a .Net application that runs on a server. It has a reference to a ..Net web service. We want to force the connection to close because the web service is behind a load balancer as there are multiple boxes processing this service. Because...more >>

Hi Guys, I have made a web service to accept applicant information and then generate account number in the web method and gives back Account number to applicant. I want to control the traffic to the web service. Particularly i want to do http connection pooling, menaing i dont want to let ...more >>

Hello, This is a development question. How I can connect with VS.NET to a WSDL on a server, which has SSL and client certificate enabled? When I add the URL to VS.NET, VS throws an error (no connection). For calling the WS, I have no troubles. Thanks Eric ...more >>

Hi, as a background I have an Windows application developed with VS 2003 (c#) that needs to transfer securely data to a MySQL database located on a Linux server. I have created a PHP webservice that will receive an xml file with all the data to update an encrypted database. This way all ...more >>

Last week I added several Web References to my Project. All worked correctly. This week I try to add a Web Reference and get the following error. There was an error downloading 'http://myServer/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx'. The request failed with the error message: -- <html><head><title>Error</tit...more >>

Our developers have experienced a problem with updating Web References in Visual Studio.NET 2003. Normally, when a web service class (.asmx) is created, updating the Web Reference will utilise the disco file to update the Corresponding proxy file and reflect the changes made to the w...more >>

Hi, I have a directory with a webservice project that is not published in IIS. Therefore I'm not able to open the project in VS.NET (2003). My goal is to create a virtual directory in IIS from my directory. But after this the project is still not available in the web project selection of ...more >>

Hello, I am new to webservices and I am trying to get a simple Webservice client in VB (Using Microsoft SOAP Toolkit) to access a webservice on a public site. I get the following error message when I run my webservice client... Runtime Error '-2147024809 (80070057) WSDLReader: Loading of the...more >>

I'm writng a smart client app which will be used 90% within a LAN and 10% across the Internet though the Internet use may increase over time. I've set off using remoting but have noticed Microsoft suggesting in a number of places that we should use Web Services in preference most of the time ...more >>

Dear all, I write a web service and deploy it on ms server 2003. If i want the method inside the web service to be used by other people who are using Java or .Net. Can i perform that?...more >>

I am new to this area,please bear with me for this basic question. :) I have an xml schema file xyz.xsd file with me,That contains request and response xml schema ,how can I proceed to create a soap based xml webservice?? Thanks in advance. Sai ...more >>

I'm having problems similar to the Peter on getting the toolkit to process my WSDL file. It just does nothing. It complains when it does not find the file, but the "Search" never gives back any results. I do not have the import complexity that Peter had. I have tried to verify that it is a...more >>

Hi everybody, I'm stuck with a stuppid problem that I didn't anticipate. I have a web method that received two de3serialized objects as parameters. The web service was auto-generated from a WSDL file. What I didn't consider initially is that I have to log the oroginal XML of each parameter ...more >>

I noticed that each call to a web service method creates a new instance of the web service class by calling its constructor. As I was not aware of that at the time the code was written I included in the constructor an initialization procedure that prepared the data for all the web service me...more >>

Hello, I'm new to Web Services. I'm trying to develop a Web Service that retrieves some data out of a database and sends them to the client as a DataSet when a method is invoked. My question is: Is it possible to run another method on the Web Service automatically to refresh the data? That m...more >>

I have a simple function within a web method. It works fine with one parameter, but gives me a compile error when I try to add a second: "Too many arguments to 'Public Function FewsArticles(OrgID As String) As String'." Here's the client calling code: Dim sFeed As String = oWs.FewsAr...more >>

I want to create an application that can be used both for a server-client model as well as a standalong application. The idea is to write a general server-client application. The standalong then just has both components on the same system. Now the question is if this is a good approach or if thi...more >>