Problem with web service

[sumeetkbali]

Hi,

I have a web-service that does the following:

It has a number(int) stored in the web config file(under appsettings
tag) so everytime you call that web method, it reads the config file,
increments the value by 1 and then returns the number as a string.

I had initially developed this on Win XP so when I did
http://localhost/nameofwebservice and then test the method using the
invoke button it worked fine(returning a different number each time by
incrementing the previous number by 1).

Then I moved over the web-service to a windows 2003 server. So now when
I do http://localhost/nameofwebservice on the server, and invoke the
method, it initially returns say 2, next time it returns 3 and the next
time it returns 3 again, then 4, then 4 again, then 5, then 5 again,
and so on. I don't know what the problem is since it still works fine
on the win XP.

I use lock(this) as the first line of code within the web-method so
that no two processes can be returned the same number.

Could someone please suggest what to do or what I might be doing wrong.

Thanks in advance,

Sumeet

[Tasos Vogiatzoglou]

Can you post some code ?

[Bali]

I solved the problem. I guess I was messing up by first opening the
app.config file as an XML file and trying to get to the ReferenceNumber
element and then also writing
System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSett ings["ReferenceNumber"]
to get to its value. Once I got rid of the system.configuration stuff,
it worked fine.

Thanks Tasos,

Sumeet