Web Services Question

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I am developing a C# client app using VS 2008 that consumes a 3rd party web
service. My question is how/where in my IDE/Debugging session can I visually
see the actual XML message that is being sent to the web service? To debug
specific cases, the other party wants to see the XML that is being submitted.
Any help is appreciated.

[Brian Lampe]

On Apr 11, 9:00 am, Rob Millman <[e-mail]:

I am developing a C# client app using VS 2008 that consumes a 3rd party web
service. My question is how/where in my IDE/Debugging session can I visually
see the actual XML message that is being sent to the web service? To debug
specific cases, the other party wants to see the XML that is being submitted.
Any help is appreciated.

I've done this with SOAP Extensions: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164007.aspx

You can hook into the serialize/de-serialize on the service before and
after it goes through the proxy code. You'll have to add an attribute
to the method in the proxy code to direct it to your SOAP extension
derived class.

Hope this helps.

Brian

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Hi RMillman,

As Brian mentioned, in .net framework, for webservice server-side or client
side, you can write a simple SoapExtension to log the request/response
messsages:

#Extend the ASP.NET WebMethod Framework by Adding XML Schema Validation
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164115.aspx

#Using SOAP Extensions in ASP.NET
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164007.aspx

Also, if you want some general means to capture webservice messages(not
require code or not coupled with .net platform), you can consider using
some network based trace utilities. Here is a blog entry mentioned some:

#Web Services Tracing Tools
http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archiv...20/217707.aspx

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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I am developing a C# client app using VS 2008 that consumes a 3rd party web
service. My question is how/where in my IDE/Debugging session can I
visually
see the actual XML message that is being sent to the web service? To debug
specific cases, the other party wants to see the XML that is being
submitted.
Any help is appreciated.

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I am developing a C# client app using VS 2008 that consumes a 3rd
party web service. My question is how/where in my IDE/Debugging
session can I visually see the actual XML message that is being sent
to the web service? To debug specific cases, the other party wants to
see the XML that is being submitted.
Any help is appreciated.

You can use a tool like Fiddler, TCPTrace, Wireshark, etc to log your data
transfers.

I heard SoapUI.org is pretty good too, but I've never used it with .NET.

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[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Hi RMillman,

Do you have any further questions on this or does the information in
previous messages help you some? Welcome to post here if there is still
anything we can help.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:21:03 GMT
Subject: RE: Web Services Question
Hi RMillman,

As Brian mentioned, in .net framework, for webservice server-side or client
side, you can write a simple SoapExtension to log the request/response
messsages:

#Extend the ASP.NET WebMethod Framework by Adding XML Schema Validation
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164115.aspx

#Using SOAP Extensions in ASP.NET
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164007.aspx

Also, if you want some general means to capture webservice messages(not
require code or not coupled with .net platform), you can consider using
some network based trace utilities. Here is a blog entry mentioned some:

#Web Services Tracing Tools
http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archiv...20/217707.aspx

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
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Subject: Web Services Question
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:00:01 -0700

I am developing a C# client app using VS 2008 that consumes a 3rd party web
service. My question is how/where in my IDE/Debugging session can I
visually
see the actual XML message that is being sent to the web service? To debug
specific cases, the other party wants to see the XML that is being
submitted.
Any help is appreciated.