hi Bonnie,
I found out that you need to run the webservice by clicking on the play button and the browser comes up. don't do anything elese. the go to your client application and then run the program and the webservice will stop on any breakpoint in the webservice not in client code.

regards

>Fred,
>
>It seems that the only way I can get a WebService to debug is to set the breakpoint on the code that calls the WebService and then step into it from there. Most of the time, it doesn't seem to respect the breakpoint if you put it in the WebService code itself.
>
>~~Bonnie
>
>
>>hi Guys,
>>how do I debug a webservice ?
>>in the web method
>>bool updateclient(dataset ds)
>>I receive a datase as a parmeters and then I update SQL server. I get a problem. How do I debug the webservice to view the values, locals etc. I placed a maroon circle to debug but has no effect
>>
>>TIA