I recently wrote a VB.Net webservice that retrieves some survey data from an
oracle server and returns it as a strongly typed dataset. For some weeks
everything worked fine but all of a sudden my customer claimed that my
application ceased working after he had added some new ...

I have a standard WSE 2.0 file attachment upload/download application on my
localhost which works perfectly.
However, when I install the application on my Live Webserver and run it, an
Exception occurs on line 3 "Object reference not set to an instance of an

I have a server that has an MS Access app -
E:\MyCatalog\MyMSAccessApp.mdb
Want users to use it via a Web Service (c#).
Writing the WS is no problem. Only not sure of how

Can you point me to a simple example of how to transfer
files using HTTP methods available in .Net.
Bob

All,
I want to implement a custom UsernameTokenManager because I need to store
our user credentials in a SQL database. I understand how I do this but I have
one question.

I am realizing an application client in VisualStudio .NET 2002 with
Framework 1.1 in VisualBasic, and must communicate with a server
realized in java with Apache Axis version 1.2RC2.
I have used a console application and then I have added a webreference

Can someone give me direction on where to get, purchase, procure a
certificate (x.509) that will allow me to digitally sign a soap message?
I have successfuly tested using the test certificate that came with the WSE
2.0 SP2.

I created a sample WSE Service using the DIME image example in the WSE SDK.
I am basically trying to send an image using DIME attachments.
I am calling the web service from a Win Form control that I have embedded in
an ASP.NET web form.  For some reason, when I try to instantiate ...

i need to "consume" a web service . I'm interested into a particula web
method.
I know it return some xml data packed into soap (by definition).
I imagine therefore that i can store whatever it returns into a C# object

I have a SOAP Server (C#) implemented as a console application. This
application is then hosted by a Windows Service (C++). The service starts the
different applications including my SOAP server using function CreateProcess
(Platform SDK).

Suppose I spawn a thread from a web method.
The thread runs a process that takes 10 minutes.
The main thread, running the web method, returns a value to the consumer
saying, "message rec'd".

I have a bunch of web services that are used to return data. All of the
methods access a DB to get the data. Ideally I would like to have them
inherit from a base class that takes care of the DB connection and
exception logging.

Fellas,
In a bit of a bind here, would appreciate any help / pointers I can get.
I am in the midst of writing up some demo utility to send a Soap Message to
a listening TCP Client. I am not using the higher level abstractions such as

I need advice about adding security to a web service without using WSE, as
the clients will run Win98.

Are there any good examples of outsourcing authentication and authorization
in a web service using WSE 2.0? Is it possible to outsource these while also
using declaritive policy? Would this be done in a cutom TokenManager? I need
to outsource to AccessManager which has it's own ...