Web Reference

[Jennifer]

I've inherited a c-sharp application that uses a web service to pass
data to the app from a central database. I don't know a whole lot
about web services and am trying to learn.

We're moving the database and web server to a new physical location,
thus diferent servers. My question is this: Do I have to repoint the
web service reference in the application to the new web service
location? Or is there some way to get around this? I would assume it
would have to be repointed and a new version of the app rolled out.
But since I didn't know for sure 100%, I thought I'd ask. Also, this
app was written with the earliest version of c-sharp and Visual
Studio.

Thanks for the insights!
Jennifer Miller

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

On Jun 28, 3:03 pm, Jennifer <[e-mail]:

I've inherited a c-sharp application that uses a web service to pass
data to the app from a central database. I don't know a whole lot
about web services and am trying to learn.

We're moving the database and web server to a new physical location,
thus diferent servers. My question is this: Do I have to repoint the
web service reference in the application to the new web service
location? Or is there some way to get around this? I would assume it
would have to be repointed and a new version of the app rolled out.
But since I didn't know for sure 100%, I thought I'd ask. Also, this
app was written with the earliest version of c-sharp and Visual
Studio.

You should be able to just set the Url property of the web service
proxy instance to point at the new server.

Jon

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

"Jennifer" <J.**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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I've inherited a c-sharp application that uses a web service to pass
data to the app from a central database. I don't know a whole lot
about web services and am trying to learn.

We're moving the database and web server to a new physical location,
thus diferent servers. My question is this: Do I have to repoint the
web service reference in the application to the new web service
location? Or is there some way to get around this? I would assume it
would have to be repointed and a new version of the app rolled out.
But since I didn't know for sure 100%, I thought I'd ask. Also, this
app was written with the earliest version of c-sharp and Visual
Studio.

What is the earliest version?

You can repoint the references and that would do it (remember to recompile).

Now I have to warn you that we found a problem last week when we tried to
change references like that from developmet to staging and the code kept
going to dev. I do not know how they solve it (I was not part of that team)
but I hear the problem.

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Typically what you would do is read the endpoint uri from a setting in your
configuration file, in the appSettings section. At startup, use this to set
the Url property of your webreference (or on each call using the proxy class,
which has a Url property that can be set prior to making a webmethod call).
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"Jennifer" wrote:

I've inherited a c-sharp application that uses a web service to pass
data to the app from a central database. I don't know a whole lot
about web services and am trying to learn.

We're moving the database and web server to a new physical location,
thus diferent servers. My question is this: Do I have to repoint the
web service reference in the application to the new web service
location? Or is there some way to get around this? I would assume it
would have to be repointed and a new version of the app rolled out.
But since I didn't know for sure 100%, I thought I'd ask. Also, this
app was written with the earliest version of c-sharp and Visual
Studio.

Thanks for the insights!
Jennifer Miller