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 >>