can someone please explain to me what a web service is, in plain
english.  i'm reading a book on asp.net and the authors explaination
doesn't do, is it just a set of functions a developer can store on a
web server and have it called by a web application or software

i am making a library that is used by desktop apps, services , asp.net
pages and webservices.. i need to be able to access files in the
directory that the webservice is (the same place where the said
library gets copied)

I am getting this error while using GetHostbyName.
(11004) The requested name is valid and was found in the database, but it
does not have the correct associated data being resolved for.
How can I deal with this. I know the domain exists.

Hello, I'd really appreciate some help with this problem:
I have a web service on two different web servers (web server A and
Web Server B) and I have to call the web service on both web servers A
and B in my application.  I created a web reference in my app to web

I have an ASP.NET C# application that uses the WebClient class to retrieve a
report that's converted to PDF.
The URL passed to the WebClient object gets the PDF stream. It works great
except for some reports that exceed a timeout value of some type.

I want to pass my own object from the web service to the client.
let us say message is my class and i want to pass this to the client so that
client application can use it
how can i achieve this using web services.

I'm using the Scott Short's Extended Schema Framework (an article about
it was published on MSDN Magazine in December 2002) in order to import
external schemas into my wsdl. It should allow to add an attribute onto
a webmethod parameter which identifies a xsd schema to associate ...

I want to generate a stub using wsdl.exe from a wsdl-file created by
XmlSpy. XmlSpy claims that the mentioned wsdl-file ist correct and
I was not table to find any problem within the file when I reat the
xml-source.

I was wondering if anyone knows how to dynamically create a schema from an
instance of an object.  I need to be able to do what ASP.NET does when it
encounters an XmlIncludeAttribute or SoapIncludeAttribute on a Web Service.
In addition, I would like to be able to insert that schema ...

I have a class which derives from NameObjectCollectionBase (let's say
FooCollection contains Foo objects). I need to use this class in a Web
Service, however when I import the service I get Foo[] as the type instead
of FooCollection. This means that I lose all the names and retain ...

How do I configure Win 2003 so that my web service can open a database
I have already "Sandboxed" all of my OLEDB data access ( to an MDB file ) into a signed assembly and put it in the GAC
What setting do I have to make in IISADMIN to enable web services
What NTFS permissions do I ...

All the documentation I can find shows only two ways of adding a
SoapExtension to a web service
1. Uses the config files
2. Use a SoapExtensionAttribute and decorate the methods

Hi, I have notice some file with extension *.ascx
Could someone tell me more about it.
I am currently got a fully done web project, but the files with extension
*.aspx

Does anyone complete this article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnservice/h
tml/service11052002.asp ????
Unfortunatle I can't find where I must insert

I am trying to update a record in a SQL database through a web service but
am getting this error:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint
'PK_Items'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'VideoProposalItems'.