i have a requirement in my application where in need to call a web service:
1. My client calls my webservice .
2. when i receive a call from my web servcie i need to notify my client that
"Process started".

Some of my webservice peers return SOAP faults using a
"HTTP 200 OK" reply and others use a
"HTTP 500 Internal Server Error" instead. I was wondering
if there is some kind of standard for SOAP over HTTP

.NET does not generate defaut namespace ?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<wsdl:definitions
xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/"

Is it possible (technically and legally) to deploy a WSE 2.0 application to
a server that doesn't have enhancements installed by including
Microsoft.Web.Services locally as part of the application install?
Or does the WSE 2.0 install make other required changes to the machine

I am upgrading a WSE enabled web services project from VS2003 to VS2005.
Still using/referencing WSE 2.0 (not WSE 3.0) because of backwards client
compatibility issues.
When calling the web service from a test client following exception is

How can I retrieve the current username in the Web Service for a WSE 3.0
enabled WS? I am using the UserNameForCertificate Policy.
TIA!

There is some debate on what an ideal web service interface would look like
at my organization. The debate revolves around how to write our web service
interface so that new methods do not break existing consumers.
Some people would have us write web methods like this:

Is it possible to make a synchronous Web Service?
I have a situation where quite big piece of data should be send from client
to Web Service server but client and server should not disconnect or
"swap" connection to other one until all data has been transfered.

I'm trying to call a wse2.0 sp3 web-service from a wse3.0 (Oct) client.
I derive a class from SoapClient and set the Destination in the constructor
like
this.Desitination = new EndpointReference(new Uri(Actor), new Uri(Via));

Is there a way to get the contents of a web service request? Preferably
including the HTTP headers too.
I tried saving Context.Request.InputStream to a stream, but it always
appears to be 0 length. Is that because it's only used in a regular Page

Following is the code snippet.
StockQuoteClient inherits from SoapClient.
SoapClient calls a soapmethod through tcp/ip.
I need to add an attachment to my request.

I am using .NET framework 1.1 SP1, .NET framework SDK 1.1 SP1, with hotfix
82202, Visual studio .NET 2003 with hotfix 823639.
I have generated a proxy class using wsdl.exe from a schema that has an
xsd:date element called XYZ_IncDate.  

I created a VC++ ASP.NET web service project that references several C#
library projects in the same solution.
1. How can I get rid of the warnings that it won't import types from the
assemblies that are under the bin trees because it has already imported them

I have deployed a web site with some webservices.
The user have the details of his account, saved like object into
profile but I can use the membership properties and I can authenticate
the user by WebServices in https mode but I can't use the profiler..

I have written a PocketPC application that connects to a web service, and
when im connected via the cable or via wireless then it pulls back the data
correctly.
However when connected to GPRS, i get the following error