Web Service Reference in Asp.net (WSE 2.0)

[mark_me]

Hi, i have a windows services that uses a service reference to amazon web service. I have created a dll that actually has the service reference and the dll is called by my windows service. My windows service works fine. I also have a local asp.net application that uses the same dll and works great (Probably because dll and asp.net application are created on same machine). Recently, i moved the asp.net application to LAN Server. I copied the dll into bin folder. I also copied the service reference folder to bin folder and it turns out that the asp.net application is not using the service reference. It is calling my dll but the dll inturn isn't using the service reference. Can anybody please provide help on where should i copy the service reference folder or files. or wat approach i should take to solve this issue. I googled but it seems that i am not googling appropriate keywords. Any help, link etc will be highly appreciated Thanks Mark

[Abhishek Sur]

Well, whenever you add reference to a web service, Visual Studio will add one settings file and create the entry to it which points to the web service location. It may also create one entry to Web.config. Have a look if you have this configured properly for your compiled assembly. :) :)

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[mark_me]

Hmmm... , on my local machine i added the reference to dll (ie my dll) thru website->add reference, whereas on the server, i just placed my dll in bin folder because i thought that should be enuf. On my local machine, i didn't make any change to add service reference so i believe web.config should have not changed... Am not sure about settings file though... It seems that by adding reference thru website->add reference, asp.net on my local machine knows where to find the service reference files but when added to only bin, asp.net doesnot know whre to get service reference from ... Is there anyother way of adding reference on server? I have tried placing the files everywhere on server but it isn't working... I need to see the web.config file ... Thanks for replying

[Abhishek Sur]

Well, Visual studio always does some tricky things which are hidden from normal users. Say if you are adding a web reference in class library, it will produce one App.config file and place the config entries there. If you reference the dll from your website, the final build will merge the entries of all the class libraries referenced to its web.config. Thus you will find the Web reference working perfectly. This is just to allow everything configurable. Such that, if you change your server, changing just the config path will do. On your machine, if you do reference the assembly through Visual Studio, it will automatically change configuration and make alteration so that your project works. If you want this by Copying the bin folder, you need to manually change the config file yourself to make it work. :)

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[mark_me]

Hi ,thanks.. It seems that i need to look into all config files... I will let you know if i am not able to solve the problem... Thanks Mark

[Abhishek Sur]

mark_me wrote:

I will let you know if i am not able to solve the problem...

Sure budd.. :thumbsup:

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