I am working on a WebRequest with xml data.  The web service accepts the
query string with no url encoding.  I must pass the <> characters as they are
in the query string.  If  these characters are url encoded the service
rejects the request.  How can I pass these characters to ...

Dear developer,
I'm developing a web service with VS .NET and using C#. And part of the
webservice is to get data from database (by using SELECT), however, the
result from the sql query i cannot parse it to string, how can i get the

I created a singleton class in my .NET app to solely handle opening and
closing a  connection to my database.  I was wondering if this is a
good design or not.  And can someone confirm with me: that a singleton
class has only one instance of itself correct?  So if i have multiple

I am consuming a web service by adding a web reference to the service's WSDL
file, and everything works fine.
When I call the service I need to also "grab" the "raw" XML document that
the service returned.

I am trying to expose a particular class defined inside my web service. The
class is used by the methods but it is not in their prototypes. It is used
for intermediate processing but I need to expose it to the clients.
How can I do it? One way is declaring a special method, like

The web service I created is using the new EL Data App Block to handle
connection to SQL Server (on separate machine). The dataconfiguration.config
file specifies the user, password, Integrated Security = false, etc.
When I run the web page that consumes the web service, I get the ...

I have created a web service for a client to consume.  The element I am
having trouble with is, as described in their WSDL:
<xsd:element minOccurs="0" ref="LocalData" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="LocalData">

I am using VS2003, each time I add a web reference the downloading of the web
references times out . This is like Article ID 815209 - "BUG: You receive a
"The operation has timed-out" error message when you access a Web service or
when you use the IPAddress class" . the ...

I am consuming a web service hosted by one of our clients.  One of the
string properties of the object I am creating to pass to their web service
is called CustomerName. The XML they re receiving I just a standatd xml
elemnt:

I'm a newbie in web services programing so I have a few questions:
Is it possible to reduce size of xml output produced by .NET web service?
I'm using SQLDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet, "Name") statement to fill dataset
which is returned then by service. Web service type is DataSet.

I want to create a web service that can create the users in the
Windows Domain. I am using ADSI for that. Using ADSI i am able to
create the users eaisly.
But when i incorporated the code in the web service i get the

I want to create a web service that can create the users in the
Windows Domain. I am using ADSI for that. Using ADSI i am able to
create the users eaisly.
But when i incorporated the code in the web service i get the

Is it possible to do something like that:
1. there is a file located on my website
2. I would like to start a webservice that copies that file each 24 hours to
a backup dir on the website

I'm currently developing a web service that retrieves data from an employee
table. I would like to send and retrieve a custom employee class to/from the
webservice. I have currently coded the custom employee class and have built
it as a separate library (employee.dll). This employee ...

I have a collection object inherited from collection base that is used to
carry my object entities from server to client through a web service. I want
to add a dataset to this collection object and send it across. But when it
gets to the web server, its failing.