My web application which runs on Windows 2003 server writes to EventLog
during application startup but I get the following exception
Requested registry access is not allowed.
at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.OpenSubKey(String name, Boolean writable)

       I have facing a small problem, it's like this.
There is a web service  which has a web method call OpenPublicConnection
which will open a connection to the SQL Server, and there is a web method
call StartTransaction to start a tranaction for the class level connection

I'm looking for some help on an issue that I've been tearing my hair out on
for several days. I have attempted several times to create a web service via
Visual Studio .Net using VB.
The service seems to work fine, displaying the option to 'Invoke' using the

In my client application (a CSharp Windows App), I invoke a webservice
function. Because these client applications are sometimes running half-way
around the world from the server, and sometimes their Internet connection
is, well, crappy, the webservice call sometimes times out!

I develop with Visual Studio .NET and I usually know the web service to
call, and y make a web reference and my problems finish.
But whar I'm trying to do now is to call a web method with no idea of which
is the web service, and which is the method to call. I say, I want to take

Is it possible to run .Net Web services in production with out IIS?  A
customer wants to Avoid using IIS if possible.

Background:
I am trying to return a list of ID's to the client requesting the web
service.  The list of ID's I want to return is a list of all relating
ID's to the passed in PersonID.

I am using remoting via TCPChannels. Sometimes, I get this message:
"Server encountered an internal error.  For more information, turn on
customErrors in the server's .config file."
I don't have a web.config file as I am basically using this example:

Is there a way to connect to a Web Service dynamically at runtime (Web
Reference URL)? I have always used Visual Studio to create a Web Reference
and then used it in my code.  However, that always requires the URL to the
Web Service to be the same on the staging site and the ...

I am creating a number of textboxes dynamically(depending upon the user
input) and am unable to retrieve that data to store in the DB. When I click
the submit button, the code is unable to find the dynamic textbox by that
name. I am creating the textboxes using a method that gets ...

I have two methods, with the same name but different params:
MyMethod(string)
MyMethod(string, string, string)
I can build the service but the call in IE or a client app fails,

Is there a way to connect to a Web Service dynamically at runtime (Web
Reference URL)? I have always used Visual Studio to create a Web Reference
and then used it in my code.  However, that always requires the URL to the
Web Service to be the same on the staging site and the ...

Hi, i 've got some troubles with a webservice.
I created it in local, and tested it also in local.
My trouble come from putting the webservice on an other computer, ant trying
to use it (normal using).

Im trying to convert a webservice to use WSE security (username/password).
The webservice has a few webmethods, one that I want protect with a
username/password.
On the client side Im writing code like this - as shown in all examples I've

Any idea how to write to the evenlog from a webmethod?
I've tried this but nothing shows up in the event log:
. . .
using System.Diagnostics;