Hi Kev,
If what you want to do is simply sending some file(binary or text) through
ASP.NET webservice, you have the following approaches:
** define a byte[] (byte array) parameter in your webservice webmethod's
input parameters (or return value if you want to download file through
webservice). Thus, when calling webservice, you can pass the file's binary
content into the input byte[] parameter.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318425 http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-5805105.html
** Directly using byte[] as webmethod parameter will have poor transfering
experience since binary to text/xml encoding will enlarge the webservice
SOAP message's size. If your application scenario can consider using some
add-on component such as WSE 3.0, you can benifit from the MTOM file
transfer encoding which will reduce binary encoding overhead in SOAP
message:
#Using Web Services Enhancements to Send SOAP Messages with Attachments
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996944.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...n/default.aspx
Hope this also helps.
Sincerely,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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