At this moment I'm involved in a softwaredevelopment project and we are
experiencing a difficult problems. I really hope that anyone can help
us to solve it, since we are working on a deadline and this keeps us
from releasing our product, which is crucial for our organization.

I am configuring my web service with Web.config using windows
authentication.  I want to limit the web service permissions by using the
allow / deny roles authorization.  I have added the following in my
web.config:

My webservice transfers big datasets over network and I am thinking to use
client side caching for doing that. Does client proxy provide a caching
mechanism similar to IE's temporary internet files? What would be the best
way to provide caching mechanism at the client proxy side?

Hi all gurus,
some days ago my IIS5 (XpPro SP2) had stopped working; since then I have
deinstalled all HotFix, then SP2, then .NET Framework 1.1, then IIS 5,
then reinstalled IIS5, SP2, all proposed WinUpdates, then IIS5, then

Forgive what may seem an obvious question, but how do I go about using WSE2
with Visual C++ ?
I have tried a #import on Microsoft.Web.Services2.dll but that does not
work, so I am rather confused as how I can use the WSE2 features with C++.

I understand that we can install SOAP extensions through web.config at the
server side. How do I install them at the client proxy side?
Thank you,
Alan

We are hosting a .net winforms usercontrol within IE6 which makes POST and
GET calls to a webserver  using httpwebrequest. This was working fine until
we changed our authentication mechanism in IIS  to require client
certificates. I can fetch the certificate in the user control ...

Hi all gurus,
I'm getting a strange behaviour in Web services design: when I try to open a
connection, or to fill a DataSet, I get the error in subj (totally unrelated
to the actual error). I've tried SQL Server connection, SSPI integrated or

I've written a simple web service and deployed it to a server on my local
network.  However, when I try to add a web reference to it in a VS2005
project on my dev machine, I am unable to.  When I use the "Add Web
Reference" dialog and enter the URL to the web service, I get a ...

Hi there, I'm trying to get a WS with a defined structure, I'm getting:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/MyWS/MyWS">
<.... rest of document ...>

Team,
We need some guidance here.  We are developing a web service to expose to
external system.  We are not sure which is the best path to take.  We have
multiple input fields required and a few output fields.  We are thinking to

How do I validate messages?  If my schema has a simpleType with facets like
"minExclusive" and "maxLength" will the .Net framework validate the message
before running the web service?  This is what one of my server stubs look
like.

 I've been getting this warning:
Microsoft.Web.Services3.SoapContext.Security is obsolete:
SoapContext.Security is obsolete. Consider deriving from
SendSecurityFilter or ReceiveSecurityFilter and creating a custom

I am just trying to set up a very simple filter to add x509 signature
elements to a soap envelope, but I am getting the following error, and was
wondering if someone might be able to point me in the right direction as to
what I'm doing wrong.