My query is why I need an Interface, since my abstract class does the same
functionality
Interface
No implementation of methods - ------- This can achieved by abstract class

I have suddenly experienced some problems with transferring data through
a WS-tier. A brief discussion is this:
We have an application (.Net 1.1-app converted to .Net 3.5) that sends an
object to a WS-tier. The object is a "plain" object with a number of

My team has created WCF services; these services are hosted by IIS and use
the WSHttpBinding binding configured with message security and Windows
authentication, as follows:
<bindings>

My webservice (using .NET 1.1) needs to send back huge amunts of data.
The data is fetched from a MS SQL database  then it is transformed in
XML format and sent back to the requesting client.
The problem is that some requests, like complex reports return back to

I am using Visual Studio 2003.  In the past I would use a copy of the
wsdl stored in my harddrive (C:\dir\dir\x.wsdl), instead of using a
url in the Add Web Reference wizard.  However, now I get an error
message, "There was an error downloading".

We are using ASMX web service with WSE (we're using WS-Addressing) and
IIS returns HTTP status code 200 even if XML is malformed (it can
contain illegal characters in it).
The request does not get through the stack to the application, but if

I have a web service that returns void but internally writes data to
context as shown below:
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[WebMethod( Description = "Gets the ...

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Hello out there,
I changed an existing and good working webservice from an wsHttpBinding
to an NetTcpBinding.
This is working (after trying some time) and has real a better performance!

I've found a free WebService on the net for a currency converter and have
created a class to use it with the WSDL tool.
I call the WebService method asynchronously:
           converter.ConversionRateAsync((Currency)fromCurrencyComboBox.SelectedIndex,

a have a .Net 3.5 command line app and have added a reference to an
webservice written in .Net 2.0. The service requires basic
authentication. When adding the reference, I was asked for username
and password and everthing worked fine. But I have no idea on how to

It seems the examples on the Microsoft web service tutorial site are
all using namespace something like
WebService(Namespace="Microsoft.Samples.XmlMessaging.WebServices") in
stead of typical url based something like

I'm deveoping in VS 2005 vb.net, a web service that calls another (external)
web service using WSE 3.0. The external web service has a requirement that
the security header contain a specific name space:
http//schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/06/secext. I can't find a way in either the ...

I'm encountering an error 401 while deploying a web services appliction to
Server 2003 with IIS6.  The application is working fine in Server 2000 with
IIS5.
The web services is installed in Server 2003 and I can access the *.asmx