Hello World Web Service

[Guest]

Hello,

I recently developed the hello world web service in Visual Studio 2005. If
I right-click on the Service.asmx file that is created, everything works fine
in Visual Studio. After verifying this, I did a Publish Web Site for this
web service. After that, I installed IIS and wanted to view hello world from
another machine to my development machine.

However, after publishing the web site, if I go to look at it from another
box on the network, I get the following error:

The XML page cannot be displayed

Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and
then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource
'http://192.168.40.20/XMLService/Serivce.asmx'. Line 1, Position 2.


After looking around on the net for a while, I've tried the following:

\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe -i
\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe -r

\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regsvr32 aspnet_isapi.dll

I tried the above for both version 1.1 and 2.0 even though I using 2.0.

After that didn't seem to work, I tried re-installing/re-pairing version 1.1
and version 2.0 of the .NET framework.

After that didn't work, I tried enabling Access data sources across domains
in IE on the client. However, this didn't seem to work either.

All I want to do is see the page that comes up in Visual Studio 2005 when I
right-click on Service.asmx and select View in Browser from a remote client.

Does anybody have any other ideas?

Thank you,
-- John

 

[Guest]

Well, I think I know what the problem was. I went through all of these steps
again, but this time I installed my virtual directory under \Inetpub\wwwroot

-- John

 

[Julie Lerman]

John

If I'm reading this correctly, you created the web service using the file
based web server and then "Published". Then *after* you published, you
installed IIS, which means you couldn't have published to the webserver as
it didn't exist.

Here are some potentially dumb questions as I don't know what your
background is.

If you open up IIS, can you see your web service? Is it an application?

Can you right click and browse the asmx file right from IIS?

Can you browse it on the local machine before even trying to browse from
another?

When you publish, are you sure you are publishing to HTTP and not to the
file system?

julie lerman

 

[Julie Lerman]

heh, we must have been typing our messages at the same time.

 

[Alvin Bruney - ASP.NET MVP]

Is that problem related to your VSTO issue you posted later?

--
Regards,
Alvin Bruney [MVP ASP.NET]

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