Re: FN-FORUM: Web Services In .Net

date posted 20th April 2008 14:14

Thanks Mark, for the info and the links.

I downloaded VS, it took hours at 3.3gb!

I finally got around to looking at this late yesterday
and I've found it incredibly frustrating trying to do a
simple thing or even find any info on doing this one thing.
Especially when it seems I need to figure out how
to configure iis to run any test pages locally as well, *sigh. :(

All I'm aiming to do is post some data from a html
form to create a dataset and post that on to a webservice
that's it.

I don't know how to get the data from the existing form
in to .net although I do know the webcall to send the info
once it's converted to the proper string, I think.

I'm sure this is all straight forward for someone
with experience with VS and any tips on the above
would be greatly appreciated as I give this one more
try.

tia,

Darren Yates

Mark Pawelek wrote:
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> Subject: FN-FORUM: Web Services In .Net
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>> 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,
>>
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> 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.
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