Hi In my solution I have 3 projects: 1. A class library. Let's name it CL (let's also name the namespace as "CL"). This class library defines a type like this: [SerializableAttribute()] public class Person { //default constructor private string m_firstName; private string m_last...more >>

Is it possible to pass a file stream in WCF and if so can you pass an array of them? Thanks...more >>

I have some web services that I've written and a forms application that calls my web services and is deployed using ClickOnce. I don't want to run the forms application in full trust but it doesn't work if I don't. The problem is that some of the web service calls are returning a custom class....more >>

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of a way or can point me to some documentaion that shows how I can send a datasource into a webservice. Thanks ...more >>

Hi! I am trying to create a web service from a wsdl from a external part. The external part is running as a client, but forces us to use their wsdl specification because they are communicating against several other parts which also must follow their wsdl contract. Now we are the only one that...more >>

Hello, Can anyone recommend the best way of compression soap packets? or a book or a webpage with detail instructions on how to do it...not even my microsoft webservices book has more than a page on compression.... I can't seem to get anything to work :( http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich/...more >>

Hi, Any help with this problem would be greatly apprecicated as it is driving me insane. I have an ASP.NET 2.0 Webservice running on Windows server 2003. The webservice calls a function in a legacy (unmanaged) C++ .dll which takes an XML string and returns an XML string. It all...more >>

Hi, I have a small web service written in PHP with NuSOAP which describes a type "Categorie" and a function "GetCategories()". I'm trying to access it with a C# application. Here is the generated code where the error occurs: ---------------------------------------------------------------...more >>

Hi, While I realise that this may not be a very nice solution architecturally, I kick off a Scheduler in an ASP.NET 2.0 webservice in Application_Start() which is supposed to call a stored proc in a database once a day every day. The code works on the day that the webservice is deployed, b...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if there is any "Init method" that is called when the web service is first deployed. I would like to initialize certain objects when the web service is first deployed. Any help/suggestions will be highly appreciated. Thanks !...more >>

Hi, I made one WCF service hosted in IIS on my server machine. I'd like to call this service in SSIS package. but I got timeout error. the HTTP connection manager allows only 300secs, but I need more. How can I solve this? I read some article, but someone says I need to ues Proxy server....more >>

Is it possible to call a web service by MSMQ? my scene as follows: I have a web MyService. WebMethod1(string reponseXML) WebMethod2(ResponseEntity reponseEntity) I want to make sure always successfully when calling MyService.WebMethod until service is available. (because of some reas...more >>

I have a friend that used a program called CICS2WS that created a WSDL to allow our PC programs to retrieve mainframe data. In the WSDL that was created, the <address location> tag only contains the URL for where the service is located <wsdlsoap:address location="http://mydomain.com/servic...more >>

Hi, Can we have implementation similar to this one ? 1. I have one service host giving me calculator service (on server). 2. I have other service host giving me alarm service (on different server). 3. Can I use both calculator and alarm service in my web service client ? How can I achieve...more >>

What is the fastest way to access the database for performance point of view? Should a .Net application call a stored procedure directly or should a .Net application call a web service, or use WCF, or is there another way?...more >>

We did a same code base test between 1.1 and 3.5. In 1.1, when your .NET application reference a library with web reference (dynamic), you can always easily overwrite the default URL by specifying a different URL in your app config file or web config file. Now, in 3.5, I find that this no...more >>

Hi all, This is my first post here so hello everybody. I have just created a webservice that accepts a string that will be parsed as a XML document, that is not important in this case. The question is that if I consume the WebService with a .net proxy the parameter is read perfectly, but when...more >>

We have a web app that is shared by several clients, and currently uses forms authentication. Two newer clients would like to use SSO, so that their users don't see the logon page. They both use 3rd party products to handle SSO with their other vendors. One uses Kerberos tickets. The ot...more >>

Hi, I have Visual Studio 2005 installed on my computer. Do I need any add-on library or software to develop SOA ? Is there any tutorial that helps to develop SOA application in .Net ? I need support for WS-* including Addressing, Eventing, Notification. Can this be done using VS.Net. ...more >>

I am new to C# and am trying to build a multi-threaded web crawler. I want to crawl many sites all at once. I know how to use IHTMLDocument2 to parse the document object but I want to launch multiple threads to parse each induvidual web page. With the WebBrowser control I can start parsing whe...more >>

Hello folks! Are there any possibilities that Office Word document is calling a Web Service running in IIS? How can this be done, and is VB only way to call Web Services (are there C# support)? Thanks for reply, Cheers...more >>

Hello Everyone, I'm preparing to build a large web service that spans 10 - 15 components with each component having 10 - 20 methods each. What is the best way to organize such a web service? Should each component have it's own ASMX file? Should I have one large ASMX file with all the f...more >>

Hi, I was reading about asynchronous transfer of control in Real Time Java Specification. I am wondering if there is any way we can do similar thing with Web Services in Service Oriented Architecture. Please let me know your opinion. Regards, Kaushal Mehta ...more >>

Hi, Can anyone explain me if we can have Timer Web Service ? I am looking for the service to support start / stop / fire functionality. This is something like Timer Server. The user web service invokes the Timer Web Service methods. The user can start the timer service and pass the ti...more >>

I have a customer who has a web service using a non-MS platform. They can only provide me a an XML file (see below) and some XSDs. I can easily create classes from the XSDs (e.g. CustomerHeaderData), but I don't know how to generate the client proxy based on their XML. Can anyone suggest ...more >>

Thinking of doing our next project so that our logical tiers can be physically tiered when desired for a given deployment and then not physically tiered when that is not needed. The solution, we think, would be using WCF and when we don't need to physically tier use named-pipes as the trans...more >>

When building a web service in the same solution as the client for the web service, what is the most efficient way to test for changes? When I add a web reference, I choose the option to add web services in the current solution. Do I have to delete the web service reference every time in my ...more >>

Hi, I have a problem to generate WS client proxies on C# with wsdl.exe because it require: "Warning: This web reference does not conform to WS-I Basic Profile v1.1." I am looking for other tool/s which can generate WS client proxies from WSDLs document. Thanks, Pavel...more >>

******** My web service: Imports System.Web.Services Imports System.Web.Services.Protocols Imports System.ComponentModel ' To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line. ' <System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService()> _ <System.Web.Se...more >>

Hi, Could you let me know what exactly happens when web service provider receives request from the client (from system perspective, like threading and all) ? Also, how does the web service store the callback address of the web service client so that asynchrony can be acheived (from syste...more >>

I might already know the answer to this one but I want to be sure. I've been looking at an article on how to write and consume a web service (http://www.asp101.com/articles/colin/webservices/default.asp) and after writing a web service to convert temperatures between Fahrenheit and Celsius the...more >>

I realize it's a discovery document but http://localhost/service2.asmx?DISCO gives me <discovery> <contractRef ref="http://localhost/service2.asmx?wsdl" docRef="http://localhost/service2.asmx"/> <soap address="http://localhost/service2.asmx" binding="q1:Service2Soap"/> <soap address="h...more >>

I am having a heck of a time with accessing the Web Services for a particular site collection. I try to add a Web reference to VS2005 for example. http://URL/Sites/sites/MySite/Subsite/_vti_bin/lists.asmx The Web service is added with the Web Reference URL set correctly as shown above...more >>

I am new to WCF, so please point me to the right direction. I created 2 WCF serivces, each one uses a difference database connection in the back end. Now from the client application, I need to keep two methods call to the service in one transaction. using (TransactionScope scope = new T...more >>

I'm fairly new to deploying WCF web services and am running into problems deploying my WCF service to a public web site. I want this web service to be accessible by clients outside my domain. The problem I'm running into first off is that the WSDL contains the server's name instead of the web ...more >>

Using VS2005, VB.NET, BACKGROUND I have a windows forms application that makes calls to a web service. All my clients work on project provided laptops (all have exact same set-up, configuration and software installations). The service is long running (uploading large files) so to avoid timeou...more >>

Hi I tried to write a webservice for test purposes. I have some PHP=20 experience but am a newbie in C# ASP.NET web development. On the development machine (VS 2005) I create an empty ASP.NET web=20 service project and added the [WebMethod] "HelloWorld" to it. When the=20 service is run fro...more >>

I'm generating a web service from a wsdl with wsdl.exe. It's not generating some of the classes the way I think it should. Hoping someone can help I don't understand why it creates the MessageRefResponse class with a property Item of type object. From the attributes on the property I gathered...more >>

I want to allow my web service to take additional data in the future without having clients currently using it to have to change anything they are doing. I don't really understand how all this is being sent but from my background in comma delimited files and strings etc I think any new data...more >>

Hi, I'm wondering what the best practices are in this area. I have two projects: a windows forms app (client) and an ASP.NET web app (server). The client communicates with the server via webservice calls. There are a number of data structures (classes, enums, structs, etc.) that are used ...more >>

Hi all, The client is sending a SOAP body with the following information: <soap:Body> <MyFunction xmlns="http://mycompany/services/t1"> <header> ... Custom Elements Here </header> <body> ... My Function Call Parameters Go Here (The regular st...more >>

I'm getting started on a web service to accept payments. I need to receive the following fields. I think all will be treated as strings at this point. I'll probably assume the amount field has 2 decimal places. Then again it might be nice to have it numeric. Here are the fields as I fo...more >>

I've done some searching, and I can't seem to find a documented approach. We have a mainframe that is able to do RPC via SOAP. Our client is .Net. When the server returns row data, it can only (apparently) produce arrays of a type (I'm guessing it's a struct on their end). What we want to d...more >>

Hi, I have Windows Server 2003 x64 standard SP2 Italian, with Xeon 3.8 Ghz and 2GB RAM. On Server I found installed .net framework 1.1 and 2.0 (x64). I am developing a simple (Hello world) web service with Visual Studio 2008 Dev Edition (English). I have selected a Web Service Site Projec...more >>

Question: Is it possible to dynamically change the SoapDocumentMethodAttribute? Scenario: We have a number of clients, each with their own web service. The web method name is the same in each web service. I can dynamically change the URL at runtime by referencing the URL property. I hav...more >>

hi there, in a project, we'd like to offer the user to upload files to our server via ftp. so what i need to do is the following: -> setup an ftp directory plus username and password programmatically -> limit the uploads to this user ftp directory either by the number of files or by total...more >>

Hi all, If I have a function such as: Public MyFunction(ByVal Parameter as MyCustomObject) as MyReturnObject MyCustomObject and MyReturnObject will be serialized in the WSDL as complextype="MyCustomObject" and complextype="MyReturnObject". Is there a way to specify the name types are...more >>

Hi! I've found an interesting problem that might have something to do with Kerberos. I have a www application running in a Windows Server 2003 box. The server did not have SP1 or SP2 installed. Everything was working smoothly. Couple days ago we installed SP2 and weird authentication e...more >>

hi there, i currently moved from VS2003 to VS2005 so i'm not really comfortable yet with the inner workings of the new ide. i've created a webservice and figured, that when attempting to debug it, the webserver shipped with VS2005 starts up and the default (service) page is displayed in the...more >>

I have a problem with .NET COM+ component which cannot access the private key of the client certificate. The problem seems to be that when the user on which privileges the COM+ server application is running is logged in, the certificate can be accessed. But as soon as the user logs out the I g...more >>