Hi All,
I'm new to Visual Studio 2008, and am working on a Web service written in VB.Net 2008. Right now, I'm just creating a stub service with method signatures and a few classes to nail down an interface to be used by our business partners to send order information to us in the background from their web application.
I have no trouble, errors or warnings building the web service project, or publishing it.
The URL shows up okay in my browser with the information about the service and its methods
I created a small windows forms application to use as a client to test the service. I add a web reference in that project and provide the url, there is a long delay before the service description shows up. Sometimes here I get debug messages for inetinfo. Other times the description shows up fine on the left part of the dialog, but in the box on the right labeled:
Web Services found at this URL: There is the following message, instead of a list of services I can create a reference to.
There was an error downloading 'http://localhost/testservice/Servicetest1.asmx?op=ProcessOrder'.
The request failed with the error message:
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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/
In today's case I hit refresh and the correct entry appears allowing me to create my reference. Similar long delays and errors occur when I make changes, after republishing, and try to refresh the web reference in the project from the right-click context menu. I have had to remove the reference and re-create it.
Any and all advice is welcome. I admit my newbie-ness freely. No doubt I will have follow up questions as this project moves forward.
Thanks as always ,
Jim Newsom
IT Director, ICG Inc.
