web services

How to use timeout property of the proxy class in VB.NET

In some cases for your web-page client, which consume a web service, you need to specify the maximum amount of time it has to wait. The article How to create an ASP.NET web-page client for a web service in VB.NET does not cover this area. By default the timeout is 100,000 milliseconds (10 seconds).

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How to use timeout property of the proxy class in C#

In some cases for your web-page client, which consume a web service, you need to specify the maximum amount of time it has to wait. The article How to create an ASP.NET web-page client for a web service in C# does not cover this area. By default the timeout is 100,000 milliseconds (10 seconds).

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How the proxy class works in ASP.NET

Two articles How to create the proxy class with wsdl command-line tool in ASP.NET and How to create the proxy class with Visual Studio in ASP.NET describe as simple tasks how you can generate a proxy class used to consume a web service. This article gives more information about how the proxy class works.

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How to create the proxy class with Visual Studio in ASP.NET

You need to create the Proxy class when you want to consume a web service as described in the article How to consume a web service in ASP.NET. The first option is described in the article How to create the proxy class with wsdl command-line tool in ASP.NET. As a second option, you can create the …

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How to consume a web service in ASP.NET

The technology .NET provides a solution with a dedicated component called a proxy class which wraps the calls to the web service’s methods. The class generates the correct SOAP message format and manages the transmission of the messages over the network by using HTTP. When it receives the response message, it converts the result back to …

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How to change a look of the web service test page in ASP.NET

In the article How to test a web service in ASP.NET, the test page used, is rendered by ASP.NET on the fly using the web page c:\[WinDir]\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[Version]\Config\DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx . Sometimes, you need to modify the behavior or appearance of this page. In this case, you should copy the DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx file to your web application directory, change …

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How to test a web service in ASP.NET

When you want to test a web service in ASP.NET, you don’t need to write a dedicated client application. You can use a test page that ASP.NET uses automatically when you request the URL of an .asmx file in a browser.  In Visual Studio you need to set the .asmx file as the start page for …

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