Re: FN-FORUM: Web Services In .Net

date posted 4th April 2008 12:59

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From: "Darren Yates" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 1:21 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM: Web Services In .Net


>
> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering if anyone out there can point me
> in the direction of a basic tutorial on making a
> web service call and return in .Net.
>
> I'm interfacing with a third party... that sounds vaguely
> kinky or is that just me? :)
>
> .Net is not one of my languages, neither is Visual Studio
> my development tool of choice obviously. Ideally
> something in Dreamweaver or code only orientated.
>
> Of course if anyone's at a loose end and they'd
> like to offer up some pointers that would be greatly
> appreciated to. ;)
>
> tia,

If you're adding a web service to a web site in VS 2008 all you need to do
is right-click 'Add New Item...' then select 'Web Service'.

There are video tutorials at http://asp.net/learn/ - hundreds of them. You
should probably do a google search on that domain or maybe use their own
search engine. Their video tutorials tend to be short (10 mins to 30mins)
and to the point.

Why anyone would want to use Dreamweaver for dot.net when you can use VS2008
or one of microsoft's free tools is beyond my ken. Does VS have an
unfriendly user-interface or something?

If you prefer to use Firefox/Firebug to test the web service then just set
the default VS browser to Firefox.

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/ tutorials are usually good but there aren't too
many of them.

http://www.codeproject.com/ tutorials are many, short, and to the point but
their quality varies a lot.

When you have the web-service up in VS2008 you can just right-click 'View in
Browser' over it - that will open a browser window showing the methods as
hyperlinks which when clicked will open another page requesting the input
parameters, which when entered runs the method returning the results as
another page. Very easy to test in VS.