We currently use datasets to pass data between our webservice and our
client. The perfomance is abismal (this is subjective of course), the users
are complaining, im not happy with the speed either.
I was wondering about 2 possible solutions

What are the different reasons, that the very first webservice request
last a long time? In my case the first request last about 8 seconds,
the second request is processed in a few milliseconds. Is there a way
to advance the performance of the first webservice request? Calling my

I have a vs2008 winform app that has a start-up form assigned through
application framework i.e. no Sub Main. How can I setup a catchall exception
handler to my app to catch any unexpected exceptions?
Thanks

I am using the ASP.NET Membership provider for username/password
authentication with my WCF service, and this authentication process is
working fine, however I am unable to obtain the authenticated username within
my WCF service.  I need to know the username for database ...

is there any chance to reference to an assembly without version
number.
     <assemblies>
       <add assembly="Microsoft.Web.Services3, Version=3.0.0.0,

Does anyone know why an ASP.NET web service considers this to be invalid
xml:
<endTime>9999-12-31T23:59:59.9999999</endTime>
while this works:

I am trying to create a .net webservice, but i dont want the webservice to
be accessed using .asmx extesnion .I should be able to accesses the
webservcie using the url something like http://localhost/myservice.sac
I have tried configuring the web.config of the webservice like this ...

I still have a lot to learn about WCF and I am hoping someone can point me in
the right direction. I am using the wsDualHttpBinding binding to implement a
publisher subscriber model. I have 3 projects set up in a solution - the
host, a Console client, and a Winforms client.

When we create a web service in .Net 2.0, after deploying the web service and
browse the service in  IIS we will get the statement as
Name of the Web Service
"The following operations are supported. For a formal definition, please

I just got a new development pc.  I copied my projects to the new pc and
find that I can not run the web service I've written on my new pc.  I
published and ran it fine on my old pc.  I haven't changed a line of
code yet.  Both PCs are XP.  Here is the error I get on my new pc ...

I am trying to understand between SOA and RPC concepts. I tried to search
the net for the difference, but found there is not much material that
discusses about them. Lot of the material referes to SOA and RPC are the
same.

I am writing .Net Web Service using Visual Studio 2005. Part of its
functionality will be implemented by a C DLL, which I am also writing.
The Web Service and DLL are separate projects in one Visual Studio
Solution.

I have a web service that pass me a DataSet, I get all data correctly, I can
even load it on a DataGridView, buyt I want to pass tha dataset to a
Internal SQL Server, exact data structure , with no modification. What is
the best wat you pass the Dataset to a table on the Internal ...

   In my application transferring large xml data over the network with
webservice. So i decided to compress the data using GZip stream. But i am
compressed the data and passing it as memory stream.
 I am getting error : There was an error in generating XML document.

Consider the following snippet of WSDL:
     <xsd:element name="findWellsInputMsg">
       <xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:sequence>