Generally on a Windows system the services file (located in Windows\System32\Drviers\Etc\Services) would specify port allocation to different applications. It contains registered ports and dynamic/private ports. This was used to reduce the chance of Port conflicts. This allowed applicat...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to add web reference to my project and getting back following message: "There was an error downloading 'https://webservicestest.com/services/SubscriptionService/v1/'. Unable to connect to the remote server A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not prope...more >>

Hi, I am having this WCF application having one server and two clients. Is there any way I can perform performance analysis on the entire system including the networking overhead and the serialization overhead ? I tried the perfmon provided in the VS Team Edition, but I am not able to g...more >>

I am trying to come up to speed on .Net webservices and have gotten stuck on a basic issue - I appreciate any clarification. I can readily create C# applications that can consume webservices as a client. In that same app, how can I offer webservices to other clients? For example, so two apps...more >>

Hi, I'm running a little wcf service, regular operations works fine, but when the returned type is a DataTable like this: [OperationContract] DataTable GetItems(); (The call reaches the server, it fails upon returning) (The DataTable that is returned is genrated by se...more >>

I see that this has been asked before, but there seem to be no (working) resolutions. I want to share the exact types used in webrequests between the client and the server. The proxy is too pale a representation of the actual class used by the server: there are useful functions like ToString ...more >>

I observed that WCF client running inside Full Trust mode XBAP application can't read byte array over 16384. If return result is bigger than that size, then client simply get null or Nothing in VB and there are no exceptions. I have tried increasing limits on both client and server. Here is a ...more >>

Hi all, I need to make a typed dataset cause i import a dataset from foxpro I use this code Dim oDbcommand As New SqlDataAdapter(Sql, Conn_SqlServer) oDbcommand.MissingSchemaAction = MissingSchemaAction.AddWithKey oDbcommand.Fill(Me.DataSet, Me.TableName) My Problem is vs 2005 or Frame...more >>

Using Visual Studio 2008 can someone point me to an example to create a cgi web service in C# ? Thanks. ...more >>

Just some common issues with WS: Using custom objects: When objects change, seems you are always fixing some issue. Update references, which sometimes does not work. Deployment: Weird errors which take a while to fix because the error stink: Forget to set ASP.NET 2.0="Parser Er...more >>

Hi everyone. My web application wants to take advantage of an encrypted authentication cookie that's provided by another application on the same server. The cookie is visible on the client side, but when I invoke a method on my web service no cookies are visible. For example, here is the re...more >>

Can anyone direct me to the best standalone web server? I'm wanting to package it with a web app which will need to run on the client machine which will have IIS turned off. Thanks ...more >>

GC.Collect() not cleaning memory, how to find out what references to lots of memory still exist? When all my processign is done i set everything to null and then: GC.Collect(); and then GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); but it still shows that my process takes 400 MB of memory. Is there any ea...more >>

I work with web services based on WSDL and I can add web reference in visual studio. After that I can declare objets which are instances of webservices. I can add values to objest properties and call functions of these objects. Everithing is fine. But now, I have to use XSD based web servic...more >>

Hi I am using the svcutil parameter: /ct to obtain IBindingList from WCF Service. I can exclude some collection or some WCF service methods from this conversion? I have some strongly typed custom collections, which are serializable, and I want, sometime, to use my custom collection, not ...more >>

I am developing a C# client app using VS 2008 that consumes a 3rd party web service. My question is how/where in my IDE/Debugging session can I visually see the actual XML message that is being sent to the web service? To debug specific cases, the other party wants to see the XML that is bei...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to access a webservice from internet through my C# .NET application. First i got a proxy 407 error and i solved that by assigning some proxy address used in my company network. Now I got "The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found." error. I tried invoking the serv...more >>

I have a service that needs to server two kinds of users. Windows Domain users and Non domain users. In case of domain users, service receives the username for authorization. In case of non domain users I get their username and password for authenticating and also authorizing them. Everywhere ...more >>

I have a web service hosting a WCF library, which works fine but produced a strange signature when interacting with vs 2005/2.0 clients. My method takes 3 strings and returns a bool as below. bool CanRun(string appName, string userName, string function); However the auto generated proxy in...more >>

We have a 3 tiered application. Table <tblx> resides in SQL2005, the DataSet <dsx> is defined in the web service. The client creates instances of <dsx> and passes them to the web service for storage/processing. The table <tblx> has a column "EntryDate" with a default value of "CURRENT_TIMES...more >>

I'm trying to increase the MaxClockSkew for our WCF bindings through code in my service host and client. From various forums etc, I have got this far: public static void InitializeEndpoint(ServiceEndpoint endpoint) { CustomBinding customBinding = new CustomBindi...more >>

Is this one of those newsgroups (like the SSIS group) that is seriously drying up on NNTP and has a much larger presence in the (ick!) MSDN Web forums? ...more >>

I have a Windows C# application that is trying to invoke a remote WebService (both mine). My problem is that trying to call the VSNet2005 generated async methods on the service can throw exceptions that are not caught and returned to the client. In the "Reference.cs" file the calls are jus...more >>

Background: I have very little experience with Web services, but I'm not a complete n00B. I'm using VS 2005 SP1, C#, and WSE 3.0, if any of that matters. Problem: For an upcoming project, I want to provide access to a partner company in another state to a Web service that I will be writing....more >>

Hi All, I have a Sharepoint web application where we persist custom objects as files.For this we have a helper class(which uses Microsot.Sharepoint.dll) which we use to create,retrieve and delete the objects in Sharepoint.I am a newbie in WCF.I am trying to write a WCF service which would e...more >>

Hi, I have built a windows app that makes calls to a webservice. Both webservice and windows apps are built with .net 2.0. The problem is... when I run the client Windows app on the dev machine, calls to the production webservice are very fast (milliseconds). When I run the exact same Windo...more >>

Here is my issue. I am throwing 2 types of exceptions in my Service throw new FaultException<XmlException>(ex); throw new FaultException<ArgumentNullException>(ex); The problem is that the When the XMLException gets to the client it is converted to a CommunicationException. The ArgumentN...more >>

Hi, I'd like to my WCF webservice to work both on SSL and without. Unfortunately searching has led to dead ends, references to changes that only work on the old previous beta versions and I admit I am rather confused and frustrated. That being said, I'd like some direction in how exactly...more >>

I have an architectural question with respect to reporting against multiple web services. In other words, how have people solved the problem aggregation? For example, if I have a Customers web service and an Orders web service. When I run a report that combines and perhaps filters on both serv...more >>

I've created a WCF WebService that uses basicHttpbinding that is hosted in IIS7. From within the Service I need to get the IP address of the caller, how can I do this? P.S. I'm using VS2008 w/C# on Vista. Thanks ...more >>

I created a asp.net web site with a web service in it. My web service returns a object "Person" which is serialized into JSON, when I make a ajax call to this service this is my return output. {"d":{"__type":"Person","FirstName":"Foo","LastName":"Goo","Age": 99,"Address":{"Street":"One Micr...more >>