a web service monitoring tool
anyone knows of a simple monitoring tool which can periodically send a request to a web service and alert me when it doesn't get a response? nothing fancy, just scheduling and reporting. ...
web-services
how to convert string representation bytes back to bytes?
hi, I am using SUDS to talk with a web service written by C#. The service recieves a url, crawls its web page, then return its content as byte[]. its type in SOAP is: <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="rawByte" type="s:base64Binary" /> sample client codes: >>> from suds.client import Client >>> url = "http://WSServer/Serv...
In a long running Common Lisp application, what strategy should be used to manage garbage?
If I am hosting a long running application such as a web server within a Common Lisp image, what strategy should I use to manage the garbage collector? I'm assuming that, by default, the garbage collector is entitled to spend long periods of time sorting out the heap, at times I can't predict. This may impact a particular browser reques...
ssis and siteminder
Im wondering if its possible to make my ssis package work with siteminder. the ssis package will run nightly and connects to a webservice and make a few method calls. but webservice is protected by a siteminder agent. docs say siteminder will only work for environments that support cookies (such as the browser). does anyone know how to s...
Reusing asmx webservices in multiple projects
We have multiple projects in our system that want to share the same asmx webservice. Does anybody have any advice / best practices on how to do this. The problem is that the webservices are constantly changing so i can't just add a webreference to production. Also that is dangerous because when doing development I want it pointing t...
Real life trading API
Do you know an API that lets you trade with real life stock or currency? If so, please describe your experience: ease of development commissions sandbox environment? etc. ...
Need to discover if A dotnet framework is installed on the client computer.
I need to device a way to learn if the user who surfs to my site has dotnet framework installed on his computer, and which version (less important). I need this to work at least with Firefox and IE 7 and up. Any ideas? (Is there any web service the Framework on the "localhost" exposes?) ...
Need help on setting web service proxy dynamically without build?
I have a web application deployed in production which references an external web service. Looking at the source code in Visual Studio, I see that the web referebce was statically linked. In the proxy reference.cs, it is hardcode to the url. this.Url = "http://server/WebService/Service.asmx"; I can change the url. But, I would like the p...
Silverlight: Webservice method returning ObservableCollection instead of Generic List
I have a webservice that calls a method that returns a generic list of class BodyPartUrls like so: public List<BodyPartUrls> getCharacterClassBody(int characterClassID) { var bpulst = new List<BodyPartUrls>(); var iqcb = ydc.ClassBodies.Where(cb => cb.characterClassID == characterClassID); foreach (var icb in iqcb) { ...
JSON WebMethod not working in Sitefinity
I am trying to call via ajax a WebMethod hosted in a traditional ASP.Net WebForm code-behind page. Here is the code for the WebMethod: [WebMethod] public static object States() { StateProvince[] states = new StateProvince[] { }; ApplicationServiceClient proxy = null; try { proxy = new ApplicationServiceClient()...
Make an ASP.NET Web service output an RSS Feed
I have been writing some Web services to be used by a few different client apps and i was trying to write a web service method that simply outputs an RSS XML Feed. I can create the XML using an XmlTextWriter Object Then i have tryed outputing to the Response (like i have done in the past when its an aspx page) but this only works it th...
Brokered Kerberos web service security over the Internet
Is it possible to use Brokered Kerberos Authentication for web services over the Internet? I'm looking at web services security for an environment which already has Active Directory. Due to the existing architecture the web services will be quite chatty and I have no control over this architecture. It may take up to 6 web service call...
Cant add Secure web service as a reference to VS2005 project.
Hello all, I'm trying to add a secure web service to a (C#) project as a reference, but VS comes up with the following errror: Unable to cast COM ob ject of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'EnvDTE.IVsExtensibility'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface wit...
Consuming a php webservice in visual studio
Hi, Is it possible to consume a php webservice in visual studio? I have a webservice with a wsdl file created by nusoap, when I try to add the web reference in visual studio the name of the service and the methods show up but it complains that the 'wsdl is not a known document type' and the discovery document could not be found. Any su...
How can I get the Url of the web site which is using my web service?
I have developed a web service and host it on my server and I would like to know who is using this web service (site Url). I tryed to use "Request.UrlReferrer" but it is not returning any thing! any suggestions/Advices? ...
.NET 2.0 Web Services WSDL Fault element being ignored?
I have a web service method where I would like to throw some custom exceptions e.g. SomeException, SomeOtherException etc which the web service would then turn into a SOAP fault which the client would be able to handle. In Java I can have wsdl:fault elements within the wsdl:operation element in the WSDL. It appears it .NET that this is n...
How to debug webservices in Silverlight
I have webservices(that I myself created for database interaction) that are hosted in the same webproject that loads my silverlight project. Whenever I place a breakpoint to iterate through the code via the async methods, visual studio merely points me to the response event (completed event) skipping the code that is in the webservice th...
Where should I start for Web Services with PHP with C# Client?
Hello I have been working in C# for a while ago, and recently started again with PHP; and I wonder if it is possible to make web services in php that can be consumed from C#. Googling, i found various frameworks as NuSOAP, Zend and others. My questions are: What good frameworks are out there for doing SOAP Web Services development ...
401 Unauthorized when contacting ASP.NET web service from ASP.NET web application.
I have a single server (Windows 2003/IIS 6). This server has a few different "Web Sites" setup in IIS. Each site is configured in IIS with a distinct host header (port 80). In addition, each site also is accessible over a specified port number (without host header). For example: MySite1: http://apps.mysite1.com or http://myserver:xx...
IIS Web Service calling COM dll that needs to access a unix file share
We have a web service that uses COM to talk to some DLLs. The data files that the DLL functions rely on are on a unix share, and we must specify the data file location when initializing the COM calls. We have installed SFU 3.5 on our Windows Server 2003 server. We can't use a mapped drive because IIS is running as a service (or can we?)....