When serving webservices in ASP.NET is an instance of the webservice
decendent class created and destroyed for each .asmx request or are these
reused throughout the lifespan of the worker process ?
thanks,

I have several sets of WS. The application making requests to these services
must authenticate to the service by sending a UserName and Password
I wanted to set it up so that the parms were based at the WS level at the
time the application created an instance of the service. For ...

I need to design a WS that will after authenicating the user, create a cookie
on the users PC that made the request. All the code I keep finding is how to
get a WS to read a cookie, I need it to create one. The below code doesnt add
the cookie to my cache. However if I place this ...

My boss asked me to look into passing orders back and forth with our vendors
and customers using web services.  It seems web services are designed to
just provide data from a call.  It seems e-commerce demands more
architecture such as sync and async responses, etc.

I would like to manually send/post a SOAP envelope to a remote web
service without binding to a WSDL. I would do this with .NET Framework
1.1 by referencing the Microsoft.Web.Services2.SoapEnvelope class
within the Microsoft.Web.Services2.dll.

when i call to web service method, while there is no internet connection,
it takes like 40 secs- 2 minutes before i get answer.
can i change the timeout so, incase of no internet connection, the method
return in 10 second ? (for example)

[This is a repost of my 12/26/2006 question per Charisse from MS Customer
Service.  Waiting on an official MS response but all are welcome to chime in]
I have a web service that returns a String as part of the return .  The
String has embedded CR (x13) and LF (x10) in it.  When ...

I am not sure really how to explain this but here goes.
I am creating some new web services and I want to be able to post data like
the following:
<Data>

We have distributed application built upon .NET 2.0. The business components
are exposed as Web Services. Some of the Business Components involves in
heavy processing and occupies more RAM. It appears there is a memory
limitation of 4 GB per process and we are not sure if we have ...

I have a WSDL definition but no corresponding schema. Does anyone know if
these can be generated from the WSDL?

I'm a bit puzzled by the current recommendation not to send Datasets or
Datatables between application tiers.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306134
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996381.aspx

I have a working Java/Axis 1.4 web service running. With Visual Studio
2005, if I try to create a web reference and refresh the Axis service,
I get this error:
The custom tool 'MSDiscoCodegenerator' failes. Unabel to import

I have a web service that run in several instances to do a large process.
What I would like to do is to know the process ID of each web service
instance and the ability to terminate the work of this web service instance
by the process ID from for example an ASPX page.

I have a .NET class library called NorthwindLib and a class called Customer.  
I have a web server that exposes a web method GetCustomer() and returns a
NorthwindLib.Customer object.
I want to consume this web service in another .NET application that

I'm fairly new to web services in .net/vs.
I'm wondering about a few ws things:
- should I create a new ws project for every ws?
- how do I best ensure that only selected consumers can use a ws?