Short version: Is there a way to configure (preferably programmatically) the max encryption strength that will be used by the framework when connecting to a particular SSL-protected web service? Long version: Historically, browsers could only be exported to certain countries if they sup...more >>

I have several sets of WS. The application making requests to these services must authenticate to the service by sending a UserName and Password I wanted to set it up so that the parms were based at the WS level at the time the application created an instance of the service. For example: ...more >>

Hi all, I want to evaluate the size of the http request sent to my webservice. How can I accomplish this? System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request seems to return the http request for the browser on the aspx page that the service is called from, not the call to the service itself. Any ideas...more >>

I am not sure really how to explain this but here goes. I am creating some new web services and I want to be able to post data like the following: <Data> <some value>1</some value> <more info>2</more info> </Data> I have the object built and I can call the web service but all I ...more >>

I need to design a WS that will after authenicating the user, create a cookie on the users PC that made the request. All the code I keep finding is how to get a WS to read a cookie, I need it to create one. The below code doesnt add the cookie to my cache. However if I place this in an non asm...more >>

My boss asked me to look into passing orders back and forth with our vendors and customers using web services. It seems web services are designed to just provide data from a call. It seems e-commerce demands more architecture such as sync and async responses, etc. Is Web services architec...more >>

I have a WSDL definition but no corresponding schema. Does anyone know if these can be generated from the WSDL? ...more >>

Hi, I have a web service that run in several instances to do a large process. What I would like to do is to know the process ID of each web service instance and the ability to terminate the work of this web service instance by the process ID from for example an ASPX page. Is there a way t...more >>

I'm fairly new to web services in .net/vs. I'm wondering about a few ws things: - should I create a new ws project for every ws? - how do I best ensure that only selected consumers can use a ws? - how do I best pass back receipts to the ws consumer? Have googled the above, but with little s...more >>

I have application1 that connects to webService1. I have a second application that references the same webservice (webService1). I need to pass an instance of a class returned from webService1 from application1 to application2. I have a reference (assembly.load) of application2 in application...more >>

I'm a bit puzzled by the current recommendation not to send Datasets or Datatables between application tiers. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306134 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996381.aspx Formerly, with classic Microsoft DNA architecture, the ADO Recordset was a primary ...more >>

I have a .NET class library called NorthwindLib and a class called Customer. I have a web server that exposes a web method GetCustomer() and returns a NorthwindLib.Customer object. I want to consume this web service in another .NET application that references NorthwindLib. When the web re...more >>

I wrote a c# web service that creates an Excel spreadsheet. Even though I follow all the formal procedures for closing the app and finalizing, an instance of Excel still remains in memory. I follow the procedures described here: http://blogs.geekdojo.net/richardhsu/archive/2003/11/...more >>