I have simple web method like the following: [WebMethod(Description = "Gets an instance of the Person class.", MessageName = "Person")] public Person GetPerson() { return CreatePerson(); } When I compile the web service, it generates the following WSDL snippet: <s:element name="...more >>

Hello everybody. I came across this question before but there was no suitable answer. Since I have the same problem, I will repeat it here. this is a simple web servive: using System; using System.Web; using System.Web.Services; using System.Web.Services.Protocols; using System.IO; u...more >>

Hi guys, I'm currently working on an application that is heavily dependant on web services. The web services are being run on an Apache Service through Axis. We'll be using mod_gzip to get the server side of things to compress the response (given that the header request specfies that it acc...more >>

Hi, We have a web service (developed in C# framework 1) that run for some time on Windows 2000. Recently we upgraded it to framework 2 and run successfully on Windows 2000 and XP. However, we cannot run it on our new Windows 2003 box. The service runs and we can even instantiate it but the...more >>

I made my own class, MyCompany.MyClass and I want to send one object of this class from my webservice to the client. On the client side, when I Update Web Reference, the object is known as ProjectName.localhost.MyClass and not MyCompany.MyClass and the C# code cannot cast from one to the other...more >>

Dear List, If I develop a Web Service in C# and upload it to my .NET server it is then very easy to use the Web Service in a .NET programmed client (i.e. C# win forms) by simply using 'Add Web Reference' and pointing to the url of the web Service. However, what if I develop a client in d...more >>

I have a web service with codebehind in c#. ASP.NET 2 with framework 2. Some times I receive this error: The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly. Which it is the cause ? I have setting the <httpRuntime executionTimeout="200" /> on the web.config of the web...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to view the incoming SOAP request on my server? I have a webservice running and I want to view the all the raw SOAP message's which I receive. Is it possible to do this by programmatically or enabling some service logs? Thanks in advance. Regards, ...more >>

Hi, I need to observe the in coming soapmessages and responses of my webservise. what is the easiest way to do it? regards sanjaya ...more >>

I have seen examples of people saying that in the soap header you can pass a username and password. Is there a reason why putting username and password information in the header would be better than just including it as an input in the web service? thanks, Anthony ...more >>

Hi @all, this is not my first webservice and everytime it worked that way, by now i got following exception when trying to call http://<url>?wsdl in my browser: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at System.Runtime.Remoting.MetadataServi...more >>

I have VB code in VS2003 which creates a HttpWebRequest and performs a POST operation to a remote URL (an https site), which runs fine and receives a valid response. However exactly the same code in VS2005 (to the same site with the same data) causes an exception 'The underlying connection ...more >>

Hi All, I'm hosting WSE 3.0 SoapService based web service, which uses Basic authentication. Since, it's implemented from SoapService, a receiver function receives the soapenvelope. Client posts the soapenvelope using HTTP POST method. How can I get the username and password used by the clie...more >>

Hi, I have a C#.net Web application which calls a web service (http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/soap/eutils.wsdl). It has run just fine for months. Recently I started getting "System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed" errors. I started the application up i...more >>

Hi Everyone: I was wondering if it is common practice to use some sort of messaging (MSMQ, WebSphere MQ) with web services. I understand the need for messaging for insert / update transactions, but do you think using messaging for inquiry transactions is overkill? thanks, Anthony ...more >>

All: I have prepared a .NET 1.1 client application that consumes a remote, public web service. All the functions work as expected, and, in general, the application has been successful for my purposes. I have discovered one bit of behavior that surprises me, however. At certain times, under ...more >>

Hello, I have created a web service name "TestWS" and published it to my SBS2003 server that uses IIS6 as a web server. I have set NO anonymous access to TestWS virtual directory and I have created a simple user account from the User template with the name of "MyUser". Problem is that I...more >>

Hi I have been using a webservice to return a dataset to a WinForms application and it has been working 100%. Recently data have increased and I have started looking for a way to compress the dataset. I found a number of articles the one I started using was: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/...more >>

Here's the issue. You have a class, Class Person { public int id; public string firstname; public string lastname; } when you expose it via webservice, [WebMethod] public void UpdatePerson(Person) { ... } How do I know whether a field value has been specified ...more >>

We have a web app that is running under Integrated Windows Authentication. It must consume to a web service we are publishing on another server, also running under Integrated Windows Authentication. In order to make this work, we have to impersonate a user account with access to the web service ...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to consume a COM dll into Web Service (written in C#). When I call the Webmethod that uses the method of COM dll from Web application, It gives me this error --- "System.IO.FileLoadException: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed". It does not give a...more >>

Hi, I am a novice .Net 2 developer and have only been developing in Csharp for the last 3 months. I have develped a number of WebServices that are being consumed by ASP.NET website. Currently for developing, I have everything running on one machine but deployment will result in the Internet c...more >>

Hi, In an C# appl I need a soap service to be called by other (unix) systems. In Visual Studio .NET it seems only possible to create a soap service as an .asmx file to be used in IIS. Does anybody know how to create a soap service to be run in a application (thread) ? (thus *without* IIS) ...more >>

Hi Everyone: I noticed when I am debugging my web service if I do not provide it with a value for a a input field that is a datatype Integer it throws an error like the following. My question is, how do I trap this since it is happening on the input? Has anyone encountered this issue? tha...more >>

Hi, I'm a newbie to the Web Services topic. I have an ASP.NET website and am trying to send a Dataset from it to a WebService which should insert all the data from this DataSet to an Access database. Also I'm working with untyped datasets. I have read some topics in this newsgroup. One sugg...more >>

Hi Everyone: We are looking to start writing some web services and I was wondering what the standard practices for securing web services out there. I was thinking that we could create a business partner id and password and authenticate against a sql database. Can anyone tell me what they are...more >>

I've sucessfully installed a web service on a colleague's computer and it works but on another colleague's computer, looking at: http://localhost/myCompany/myService.asmx gives the following error: <%@ WebService Language="c#" Codebehind="MyService.asmx.cs" Class="MyCompany.MyService" %...more >>

I'll like to build a WS that will be consumable by Java and other development languages. Can I use WSE 3.0? Or this is Microsoft only? If WSE is not supported outside of Microsoft, what should I use for security that is highly standard? What documentation/guidance or links do you have ...more >>

Hi, I am starting to work with VS 2005 and I have created a Web Service. I want to move the web service to my web server...but, I can't figure out where the dll is placed when I build the project? There is no \bin folder present in the asp.net web service project. Is it still the same...more >>

Hi NG, It was my understanding that in order for a webservice to be able to write to a file on the webserver, the ASPNET-user should have write privileges on the file. Is this correct? My problem is that I have a logfile that the webservice needs to be able to write to. However, adding the ...more >>

OK, I'll admit it up front - I just don't get it. Here's our previous VS2003 development model. Developers develop the WS solution on their own workstations, using their own IIS web servers mapped to the local devleopment folder. Project compiles to a subfolder .\bin. To deploy, the asmx pa...more >>

Hello, I have a web service that updates an SQL database thru a web service. I would like to expose the database table so I can easily add it as a Data Source in VS 2005 to program the web service client. Any ideas how to do this? Thank you, Tom ...more >>

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Hi! Can we return an Array of object from a Webservice? If anyone can provide some example that will be very nice. Thanks in advance. Baren...more >>

Hi, I created a web service using Java/JAX-WS. I'm able to consume this web service using VS 2005 and .NET without a problem. However, the class and property names that were generated for the proxy are in camel case. i.e. the first letter is lower case rather than upper case. Does anyone kn...more >>

Hello, I want to create a header and footer control which will be used in both the java and .net application. We are planning to create a webservice for this in C#. I am familiar in creating a webservice , but not sure how to create something compatible for java team (J2EE). Java team needs t...more >>

I am writing a .NET web services client that is calling an Axis web service. I have two questions. 1. The following code should set the authentication; when I call a method on the web service, the call fails with "bad username/password". // wrWorkReq is the name of the service wrWorkR...more >>

Hi All, I have a interceptor application which intercepts the web service called from one site to another. Is it possible for me to send a SoapEnvelope, which was received from the prior application to the web service? If so, how this can be implmented? Thanks in Advance. ...more >>

Hi, Passing a string parameter to a webservice to get the dataset generated as the result, seems to give me an error suggesting that no parameter is being passed. However it works if I explicitly state the value as the parameter. Code in Csharp being developed in VS2005 for ASP.NET. Below is ...more >>

Hi I have a problem in VB.net 2.0 We are using a third party webservice. I have loaded the wsdl file and can access the functions the service has. Now this party wants that we add a SOAP header element named 'Vendor' so that they can distinguis which vendor called the webservice. How ...more >>

Hi, I'm creating an ASP.NET website in Visual Studion 2005 using Csharp and have added Web References to "two" Web Services running on my localhost (Both WebServices and ASP.Net website are on the same machine). Even though the Web References exist, I am unable to consume the second Web Servic...more >>

Hello Everyone, I have been working a webservice where I can use it in other applications that I am working on. However, I am running into a problem with the data returned and I was wondering if someone could help. This is the code for the method that I call <WebMethod()> Public Functio...more >>

Someone help me please. I've tried to write an asynchronous method, but it didn't call my web service, do I need to do something in my webservice project to make it work? or if there is something wrong with the code that I have below. Thanks.. The following are my two methods where one i...more >>

I'm new to web services but am trying to create a web service in VB.NET 2003 to query and convert MS Sql 2000 Data to a comma-delimited text file and transfer the data based on the parameters supplied in the http request. Any ideas or further reading suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

I've got a web service that is giving me back this error message. The directory is Windows\Temp and I have given everybody complete access to this directory and am still getting the error. Any suggestions? TIA - Jeff ...more >>

I have an interesting situation with soap:address being dynamically generated. My production environment has a load balancer that is doing https encryption. From there it communicates with my webserivce on port 80. This means that the <soap:address> setting gets set to http rather than http...more >>

Hello, I have a question. I have a program made in VB6 that caputure the images that are transmitted by a webcam and records it in a database in MySQL. I want to do a WebService in .NET that allows that this program should save the photos in this database, but acceding across the WebService, a...more >>

Hi All, I am calling a Java web service which is throwing some exception which the catch block is trapping successuly. I can see the "javax.ejb.EJBException:" in ex.message. but after this function i am getting the following exception in IDE window like An unhandled exception of type '...more >>

Hi! All, I facing the following problem. Can anyone help me out. I have developed an application which has a webservice and its been accessed by a Windows application. The system where i developed the application doesn't have IIS, My client has created a virtual directory on some webserver ...more >>

Hi, I have written a WSE in vis studio 2005 as and produced a dll that I can use in other projects by including the following in the web.config. <webservices> <soapextensiontypes> <add type="traceextension, simpleModule" priority="1" group="high"/> </soapExtensionTypes> </webserv...more >>