I created a Hello World webservice-published it - how to call it?

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Hello,

I just created a Hello World webservice in VB2005 (this is my first
webservice ever). I ran it in debug mode and the page that came up said
Hello World and said to change the webservice namespace from tempuri.org to
something else so that the xml file could be created. I did that. Then it
said to make a web reference (say what?) The only web reference I was able
to make was to the local solution: Local Host. Then in the build I
selected publish. The project was copied to a virtual directory on my IIS
webserver (Service1.asmx and related files).

When I tried to call it from Internet Explorer I got an error message. I
typed something like

myVirtualDir/mywebservice/Service1.asmx

This brought up an error page and suggested that I create a custom errors
tag in web.config and set it to off to get a better error message. This is
getting a little complex for me. So what is the correct way to deploy/call
my new webservice?

Thanks,
BC

[rowe_newsgroups]

On Jan 15, 11:23 am, BC <[e-mail]:

Hello,

I just created a Hello World webservice in VB2005 (this is my first
webservice ever). I ran it in debug mode and the page that came up said
Hello World and said to change the webservice namespace from tempuri.org to
something else so that the xml file could be created. I did that. Then it
said to make a web reference (say what?) The only web reference I was able
to make was to the local solution: Local Host. Then in the build I
selected publish. The project was copied to a virtual directory on my IIS
webserver (Service1.asmx and related files).

When I tried to call it from Internet Explorer I got an error message. I
typed something like

myVirtualDir/mywebservice/Service1.asmx

This brought up an error page and suggested that I create a custom errors
tag in web.config and set it to off to get a better error message. This is
getting a little complex for me. So what is the correct way to deploy/call
my new webservice?

Thanks,
BC

Have you set the web service as a .Net app in IIS?

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

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The only thing I have done so far is to publish the webservice to IIS. I
look at IIS virtual dirs and there are the files (the .asmx file ...). I
have not done anyting (anything else regarding this webservice) in IIS. How
do I set my webservice as a .Net app in IIS?

"rowe_newsgroups" wrote:

On Jan 15, 11:23 am, BC <[e-mail]:

Hello,

I just created a Hello World webservice in VB2005 (this is my first
webservice ever). I ran it in debug mode and the page that came up said
Hello World and said to change the webservice namespace from tempuri.org to
something else so that the xml file could be created. I did that. Then it
said to make a web reference (say what?) The only web reference I was able
to make was to the local solution: Local Host. Then in the build I
selected publish. The project was copied to a virtual directory on my IIS
webserver (Service1.asmx and related files).

When I tried to call it from Internet Explorer I got an error message. I
typed something like

myVirtualDir/mywebservice/Service1.asmx

This brought up an error page and suggested that I create a custom errors
tag in web.config and set it to off to get a better error message. This is
getting a little complex for me. So what is the correct way to deploy/call
my new webservice?

Thanks,
BC

Have you set the web service as a .Net app in IIS?

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

[rowe_newsgroups]

On Jan 15, 1:06 pm, BC <[e-mail]:

The only thing I have done so far is to publish the webservice to IIS. I
look at IIS virtual dirs and there are the files (the .asmx file ...). I
have not done anyting (anything else regarding this webservice) in IIS. How
do I set my webservice as a .Net app in IIS?

"rowe_newsgroups" wrote:

On Jan 15, 11:23 am, BC <[e-mail]:

Hello,

I just created a Hello World webservice in VB2005 (this is my first
webservice ever). I ran it in debug mode and the page that came up said
Hello World and said to change the webservice namespace from tempuri.org to
something else so that the xml file could be created. I did that. Then it
said to make a web reference (say what?) The only web reference I was able
to make was to the local solution: Local Host. Then in the build I
selected publish. The project was copied to a virtual directory on my IIS
webserver (Service1.asmx and related files).

When I tried to call it from Internet Explorer I got an error message. I
typed something like

myVirtualDir/mywebservice/Service1.asmx

This brought up an error page and suggested that I create a custom errors
tag in web.config and set it to off to get a better error message. This is
getting a little complex for me. So what is the correct way to deploy/call
my new webservice?

Thanks,
BC

Have you set the web service as a .Net app in IIS?

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

I have not done this in a while, and do not currently do any IIS admin
stuff, so my advice could be off.

With that said, I believe you right click on the virtual directory and
go to properties. One of the tabs should be called something like
"ASP.NET", you need to open that tab. One of the drop downs should
have the target framework version, which by default is set to 1.1.
This is the property you need to set to 2.0 (if you wrote this
with .NET 2.0 (VB 2005)).

Thanks,

Seth Rowe [MVP]