Parser Error Message: Only one <configSections> element allowed. It must be the first child element of the root <configuration> element. OK, fine, easy enough to fix, I just need to copy and paste this block to where .NET wants it to be. But I can't help but think, why??? Doesn't this insi...more >>

Hi, I wrote a very simple web service which return "Hello World" and save a log file in c:\. After I invoke the web method. the "Hello World" returned correctly. but these is a problem on log file. seems there is no change on the log file. I think I have permission problem that my web service...more >>

Hi, I have a client (C# MS Excel Project) calling a Web Service to retrieve and update data. One of the business requirement is the client's NT Login ID, IP Address and computer name must be log for each web service method call. To get client information using integrated Windows authenticati...more >>

I need to download a greater than 4 megabyte attachment via WSE / DIME. The only way I know how to configure this is via a .config file. Normally, the ..config file is the same name as the base application. I built a .NET driver program to test this, NetBrokerDriver and provided a NetBrokerD...more >>

Hi group. I am using VS2005 RC1. I can't figure out how to get started doing Contract-First web services development. I am aware of the thinktecture tool WSCF, which does what I need. I am aware that Indigo supports the contract first paradigm, unfortunately it is not an option at the cu...more >>

Hi, I'm desperate with a webservice and a consuming WinForms-client. It used to work well, but all of a sudden (= I don't know what I changed really :) I get an exception "Generating the XML document failed" ("Beim Generieren des XML-Dokuments ist ein Fehler aufgetreten"). My code method...more >>

Hi, How can I increase the HTTP Timeout value at the client side? Thank you, Alan ...more >>

Hi, I have a web service with two soap extensions enabled on it. When I run the default IIS method invoke page, the invoke button bypasses all my soap extensions. But when I call the web method through another proxy, it works fine. Why this is happening? Any help woul...more >>

I have an application that is doing some web scraping and needs to submit certain information to a web form. Is there a method in VB.net or the .Net framework to POST form data with key/value parameters because the only method i can find require me to build my own variable string to pass to th...more >>

I get the following Exception "The data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 642" whenever I try to deserialize an incoming SOAP message. The incoming message is formed well and its length is 642 bytes ( I have appended it to the end of this message). I suspect that the reason may h...more >>

I am experiencing a problem with AuthHeaderValue. I have implemented web services which use authentication through AuthHeaderValue. This works perfectly for any Windows application but it fails for a Pocket Pc or Smartphone app. The code is the same, the thing compiles, but I always get a...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to authenticate the user based on the credentials that I get from the client app, but I'm getting empty string as user name. Can somebody tell me if I'm doing anything wrong here. Thanks in advance! Here is what I'm doing: In the windows app, I've set the current securi...more >>

Can someone point me to some information on namespace best practices? Questions I have are as follows: 1) Should I use .NET namespaces or URL, URI and URN's? Ie mycompany.mydivision.myapp vs http://www.mycompany.com/division/app? 2) Should I use namespace prefixes? I thought I read somethi...more >>

I'm transferring a file from server to workstation, using Web Service Extensions and DIME. Along with the file, which travels as a DIME attachment, I'm also sending along metadata information about the file as it exists on the server. The metadata also travels as a DIME attachment in XML for...more >>

I am passing the webservicename, method to be executed and the parameters for that method from a page to an intermediate webservice function which in turn needs to instantiate the webservicename passed execute the method based on the parameters passed and return the value. Does anyone know how...more >>

Hi, I need to write a windows application, where I have to list all the Web services on the local IIS. Is there any API or code I can use to get a list of all the Web Services on local machine. Thanks. Kishore...more >>

Hi, can someone provide some advise on how to get around with using auto generated proxies? basically I already have the proxy classes, and they are used by other places. I'd like use these existing classes instead of having to generate another set of proxy classes, which are going to be very si...more >>

Hello there, I am facing a severe problem, I have to invoke a dll on a client machine after the user click a certain link on my web page. This dll is first downloaded to his machine and then invoked. Can this be done, if yes please suggest me some code to do so Thanks in advance -- ...more >>

Hi! We have a Web Service written in ATL Server and a client written in Java using Axis. When something goes wrong on the server side, it returns an HRESULT of the error which is translated into the SoapFault. The problem is that the SoapFault is interpreted by Axis not as a SoapFaultException...more >>

I have a game program I am writing. I want to publish the results of a turn as a html document that I can then e-mail to the players. What would be the best way to create the html document from C#. Thanks for the help. Ken ...more >>

Hi! I've searched this topic with limited results. I'd like to know if I can build a MS WebService in C#(v.1.1) on Windows Server 2003 without using IIS ? Is it possible? What's involved ? Are there any useful URL's describing how to do it ? Thank you in advance, --Michael...more >>

I have an issue where the provided .wsdl file is being generated incorrectly with the WSDL.exe tool. I have to use digital client certificates for authentication and it has been determined...by another business...that the proxy class was generated by the wsdl.exe tool incorrectly for use with th...more >>

I have a webservice that I wanted to return an ArrayList..Well the service compiles and runs when I have the output defined as ArrayList, but the WSDL defines the output as an Object so I was having a problem in the calling program. I searched online and found suggestions that I return an Arr...more >>

Hi all, We have a web application that uses web services for data access and retrieval. The web app and web services reside under IIS on the same server(WIN2003). The virtual directories have been set for windows authentication and both the ASP web application and the web services are usi...more >>

I've got a .NET Framework V1.1 web service running on a Windows 2003 Server that has 2 web methods that are called from a web application on the same server. One is a fire-and-forget method that executes a long running process that results in a database being updated. The other is a normal...more >>

I'm currently developing an application involving using modems to establish a direct conection with remote server. Is it possible to use web services in this scenario? Does web services support support communicating through serial ports or usb ports? Thanks......more >>

I'm currently working an .net application (I can use 1.1 or 2.0 if needed) that needs to read a wsdl file and generate another piece of code that can use it. I'm encountering a problem where I cannot extract all of the type information from the wsdl using any standard tools. I'm using HttpG...more >>

Hi All, I am adding a custom header (Gzip header for compression) to the request when calling a webservice( sitting on a webserver) over the internet from my application ( If interested in the details of the application , it is a vb.net winfom application ). The web server receives this reque...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to invoke a web method asynchronously but just can't seem to get it to tell me when it has finished! Below is the code I am (currently) using: private void btnUpload_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { try { SO...more >>

Hi, I am developing a SOAP extender and I need to store some session information at BeforeSerialize ProcessMessage event, so at the AfterDeserialize ProcessMessage event I know which call I am dealing with. What would be the best way for storing some session information during Proces...more >>

Do I need to deploy both my ASMX page plus the DLL onto the web site? If so, can you please explain what role both of these deployment units play? To me they would seem to be mirror images of each other. Thanks for your help. - Joe Geretz - ...more >>

Why every web service method invoked on .NET Framework (addInteger, helloWorld, getServiceDescription) returns a soap envelope with a additional tag that ends with "Result" wrapping the result??? Request: <soap:Envelope > <soap:Body> <hello/> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope> ...more >>

Hi, Can I view/modify SOAP message at the client proxy side without using soap extensions? Thank you, Alan ...more >>

I have a webservice and I add a web reference from my web project. I want the proxy class to implements an Interface, but I didn't find the source code of the proxy class and I don't want to create a Wrapper for the proxy. Where is the source code? What can I do? -- Henry Sequeira Cost...more >>

Hello All, I have a web method in a web service as follows: [WebMethod] public SqlDataReader Display_test_data() { string connectionInfo = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["ConnectionInfo"]; SqlConnection sqlconnection = new SqlConnection(connectionInfo); sqlconnection...more >>

Hi, Can I use SoapExtensionAttribute at the client proxy side? Thank you, Alan ...more >>

Hi, I understand that we can install SOAP extensions through web.config at the server side. How do I install them at the client proxy side? Thank you, Alan ...more >>

Is that even possible? I am creating a web service in .NET to expose some already created .NET programs to other groups. One group is writing the client in PERL, and thus wishes the wsdl schema to not be sequenced. (PERL hashes do not retain order information) First, the w3 specs don't m...more >>

Hi, We are developing a SmartClient application and we are planning to expose business objects layer to SmartClient application by using ASP.NET SOAP web services. The client can send different found transfer request to different web services. The problem is upon any inter...more >>

Hello, Maybe not a suitable question to be placed here, but still appriciated for someone offering any information, thanks! ...more >>

Help me understand this, please. I have a Winforms app, lets call it WinApp.exe. I also have a DLL, lets call it WebBroker.dll. The purpose of WebBroker.dll is to broker an interface with a WebService. I don't encode this directly into MyWinApp, because I want to generate a single component...more >>

Hi, I have a web-service that does the following: It has a number(int) stored in the web config file(under appsettings tag) so everytime you call that web method, it reads the config file, increments the value by 1 and then returns the number as a string. I had initially developed this on...more >>

Hi Scenario: I am calling a web method from a WinForms method. The proxy of the web service then checks one of it's settings. Depending on the setting I want the proxy to call a method in the instance of the WinForms class that called the web method. Once the client-side method is complet...more >>

Hi, I am looking for the equivilent of a Page_Load event in an aspx for an asmx (webservice). Is there such a thing? Is it possible to override? I know you can write your HTTPHandler for asmx files but is there an easier way? I want to do some customizations / validations to what the we...more >>

I have a project that requires an XML webservice that will receive an xml file. The webservice will need to read the XML file, download a pdf file from a URL stored in the XML file then store the xml data to a SQL table and finally send back an XML confirmation file. I have researched sever...more >>

I have a few questions. First, I have a java webservice, which was developed using the Java Webserices Developer Pack 1.3. Here is the wsdl for the service. (Note: That this service is not exposed publicly.) <?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"UTF-8"?> <definitions xmlns=3D"http://schemas.xm...more >>

Hi, I created a sinple web service that returns a dataSet. Then I created a client program that uses this web service (that returns the Dataset). My question is, how did the client figure out to create a "DataSet" as the return type from the webservice? I looked in the wsdl.... there i...more >>

We have a client/server application that is written in VC++/MFC. We are trying to integrate with a 3rd party product that exposes its data through a web service. I am trying to figure out the best way to approach this. It seems like .NET provides the greatest support for accessing web servi...more >>

Hi, My native language is Icelandic and I´m making a web service that returns results that contain many Icelandic characters. This works fine, however, when I return a soap:Fault, the string in the faultstring element has the Icelandic characters encoded like "r&#233;ttindi", where "&#233;...more >>

I'm working on an file transfer gateway using WSE with DIME for file attachments. Our goal is to replace our direct file repository access (via windows network folder sharre) with the Web Service gateway for security purposes. As it stands now, all workstations have direct read-write access...more >>