asmx file visibility

[PeterW]

On my machine I developed a WebService on localhost and if I browse the asmx
file I get the usual page that defines the webmethods exposed by the
webservice and the opportunity to get the wsdl file using the Service
Description link.

This is saved into SourceSafe and then another person in the team gets
latest from sourceSafe onto his system to try to run the webService on his
localhost, all of the solution builds properly, but any attempt to browse the
same asmx file results in the development environment being opened instead
with a file downloaded that contains the <%@ WebService Language="c#"
Codebehind="blah.cs" Class="BPL.yadee.blah" %> type tag that one would
normally associate with a designer page. Why? After all a WebService does
not have a user interface. The downloaded file contains nothing but the
above tag.

I have checked that IIS is correctly setup on his machine and I cannot see
anything amiss. The anonymous user is being used. I have run aspnet_regiis
/i to ensure asp.net uses 1.1 of the Framework.

What am I missing.
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PeterW

[PeterW]

If one opens the asmx file with a text editor, all it contains is the
WebService directive. If one attempts to open it in VS.NET you get a
Designer page with a couple of links and of course a WebService does not have
a user interface. If using either IIS or VS.NET you view an asmx file in
browser you get an HTML representation of the interface of the cs code file
with links.

I can see this HTML file on my system.

The others cannot. The project copiles fine but they cannot browse the asmx
file either locally or across systems on mine.

Thus would appear to me to be a VS.NET configuration issue, but where and how?

I am trying to hand this stuff over to a tester but cannot get his system to
replicate what happens on mine. In both cases we are using localhost and not
a dedicated web server.

Any ideas.

"PeterW" wrote:

On my machine I developed a WebService on localhost and if I browse the asmx
file I get the usual page that defines the webmethods exposed by the
webservice and the opportunity to get the wsdl file using the Service
Description link.

This is saved into SourceSafe and then another person in the team gets
latest from sourceSafe onto his system to try to run the webService on his
localhost, all of the solution builds properly, but any attempt to browse the
same asmx file results in the development environment being opened instead
with a file downloaded that contains the <%@ WebService Language="c#"
Codebehind="blah.cs" Class="BPL.yadee.blah" %> type tag that one would
normally associate with a designer page. Why? After all a WebService does
not have a user interface. The downloaded file contains nothing but the
above tag.

I have checked that IIS is correctly setup on his machine and I cannot see
anything amiss. The anonymous user is being used. I have run aspnet_regiis
/i to ensure asp.net uses 1.1 of the Framework.

What am I missing.
--
PeterW