Hi Everyone.

I'm running into a weird problem with VS 2005. I can no longer easily
add web references. In Visual Studio, I right click "References" and
choose "Add Web Reference". Then, in the dialog box, I type the
location of the reference, "http://acme/acmeWebServices/". After a
few seconds, I see the web methods in the right pane (which is just a
reflection of Internet Explorer) but in the right pane, the "Add
Reference" button is greyed out and there's a error: "The request
failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable." I cannot create a
proxyFile using WSDL.exe either (even when I specify the proxy URL,
user and password properties). Other oddities include having to use
fully qualified names for some web references. I found that there's
one server in our enterprise who's webservice I can add (besides
localhost). But even there, i can't simply specify "http://server/
WebService/" (I get a "Proxy Authentication Required" error). i have
to specify "http://server.company.com/WebService/" to correctly get
all the web services.

I do all of this in VS 2003 with no problems. There's something
that's changed in VS 2005 and I don't know where to look for it. I've
scoured Google and other search engines and tried almost everything
(even obscure stuff like "regsvr32 msxml.dll", etc).

Thanks in advance for the help!

update the proxy settings in vs2005 configuration file:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910804

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)


"Oblivion" wrote:

> Hi Everyone.
>
> I'm running into a weird problem with VS 2005. I can no longer easily
> add web references. In Visual Studio, I right click "References" and
> choose "Add Web Reference". Then, in the dialog box, I type the
> location of the reference, "http://acme/acmeWebServices/". After a
> few seconds, I see the web methods in the right pane (which is just a
> reflection of Internet Explorer) but in the right pane, the "Add
> Reference" button is greyed out and there's a error: "The request
> failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable." I cannot create a
> proxyFile using WSDL.exe either (even when I specify the proxy URL,
> user and password properties). Other oddities include having to use
> fully qualified names for some web references. I found that there's
> one server in our enterprise who's webservice I can add (besides
> localhost). But even there, i can't simply specify "http://server/
> WebService/" (I get a "Proxy Authentication Required" error). i have
> to specify "http://server.company.com/WebService/" to correctly get
> all the web services.
>
> I do all of this in VS 2003 with no problems. There's something
> that's changed in VS 2005 and I don't know where to look for it. I've
> scoured Google and other search engines and tried almost everything
> (even obscure stuff like "regsvr32 msxml.dll", etc).
>
> Thanks in advance for the help!
>