I've been trying to get through the samples included with VS.NET but I am having a great deal of difficulty. I am following the directions for "Walkthrough: Creating an XML Web Service Using Visual Basic or Visual C#" in the help file verbatim, but the damned thing just won't work!

1. The WebService1.vsdisco file that is created by VS.NET has a MIME content type of application/octet-stream instead of text/xml. I get an error when I try to add a Web Reference to a project using this file. This is a problem that I have been working to resolve for 3 days and I don't expect a simple answer unless someone has else had the same problem and solved it.

2. I finally got IIS to send the .vsdisco file as text/xml but VS.NET complained about a lot of missing tags in the file (file is included below).

3. Many of the VS.NET dialog boxes are misshaped and I can't see all of the controls.

Has anyone else encountered these problems? Does anyone have some suggestions? Has anyone been able to install VS.NET and work through the "Walkthrough: Creating an XML Web Service Using Visual Basic or Visual C#" sample sucessfully?


Auto-generated vsdisco file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<dynamicDiscovery xmlns="urn:schemas-dynamicdiscovery:disco.2000-03-17">
<exclude path="_vti_cnf" />
<exclude path="_vti_pvt" />
<exclude path="_vti_log" />
<exclude path="_vti_script" />
<exclude path="_vti_txt" />
<exclude path="Web References" />
</dynamicDiscovery>

TIA,

Keith Payne