asp.net on mono: how to add a reference to an assembly

Question

Very basic question - but I couldn't find an answer. I have got a asp.net web service which is located in an asmx file. This should call a function from a helper library. Using a different asmx file in Visual Studio everything is working fine - I just had to add the assembly to the dependencies of this project.

Altough I have copied the assembly to the bin subdirectory on the webserver (I think this was what the descriptions I've read said) it returns this error message:

Server Error in '/' Application CS0246: The type or namespace name `XXXFunctions' could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?

Description: HTTP 500. Error processing request.

Stack Trace:

System.Web.Compilation.CompilationException: CS0246: The type or namespace name XXXFunctions' could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference? at System.Web.Compilation.AssemblyBuilder.BuildAssembly (System.Web.VirtualPath virtualPath, System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters options) [0x00000] at System.Web.Compilation.AssemblyBuilder.BuildAssembly (System.Web.VirtualPath virtualPath) [0x00000] at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GenerateAssembly (System.Web.Compilation.AssemblyBuilder abuilder, System.Collections.Generic.List1 buildItems, System.Web.VirtualPath virtualPath, BuildKind buildKind) [0x00000] at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.BuildAssembly (System.Web.VirtualPath virtualPath) [0x00000] at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetCompiledType (System.String virtualPath) [0x00000] at System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebServiceHandlerFactory.GetHandler (System.Web.HttpContext context, System.String verb, System.String url, System.String filePath) [0x00000]
at System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory.GetHandler (System.Web.HttpContext context, System.String requestType, System.String url, System.String pathTranslated) [0x00000] at System.Web.HttpApplication.GetHandler (System.Web.HttpContext context, System.String url, Boolean ignoreContextHandler) [0x00000] at System.Web.HttpApplication.GetHandler (System.Web.HttpContext context, System.String url) [0x00000] at System.Web.HttpApplication+c__Iterator2.MoveNext () [0x00000]

This is the asmx file I'm using:

<%@ Assembly name="System.Web.Extensions" %>
<%@ Assembly name="System.Runtime.Serialization" %>
<%@ Assembly name="System.ServiceModel.Web" %>
<%@ WebService Language="C#" Class="FCWService.FCWService" %>

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Services;
using System.Web.Script.Services;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

namespace FCWService
{
    [WebService (Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/NumberService")]
    [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
    [ScriptService]
    public class FCWService : System.Web.Services.WebService
    {
     [WebMethod]
        [ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)]
        public XXXFunctions.Data GetData(double length)
        {
            return XXXFunctions.Functions.GetData(length);
        }
    }
}

Any ideas ?

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Answered: I found out that there was a <%@ Assembly name="XXXFunctions" %> directive was missing on top the asmx page.

Answer 1

Are you sure you copied everything you needed? There seems to be a namespace or something called XXXFunctions that's missing on the server.

Answer 2

Answered: I found out that there was a <%@ Assembly name="XXXFunctions" %> directive was missing on top the asmx page.