I have inhherited a vs2010 c# web project (asp.net). It has a web reference to a web service. There's been a slight change to the service - a new operation has been added. I'd like to update the proxy class so that i can call the new operation but i can't find the class. I seem to remember there used to be a "show all files" button in solution explorer that would reveal the proxy class but i can see no sign of that. Unfortunately, i'm not able to refresh the proxy by pointing it at the web service metadata wsdl because vs is no longer installed on any pc that can reach the web service. Anyone know where i can find the proxy class?
It doesn't matter you can't find it in Visual Studio - you can always locate a proper file in your filesystem, under the project directory.
Problem was, the app was running - doh!
Yes, you are right. There is a "Show all files" icon in the tool bar. It will only be available when you have a project selected, so you want to select the web service's parent project:
Expand the service reference and under it the file called Reference.cs is the proxy class.
You should NOT be hand editing this though. You should make the changes to the service and then regenerate the proxy using the Update Service Reference right click option. But then if you really can't do that as you say, then just hand edit the file. But beware that any changes you make will be lost if someone does regenerate it again in the future. Very Risky! (I prey you are using source control)
There is a WSDL.exe command line tool.
Copy and execute this command line tool in the PC where you can have access to the WebService, it will generates the proxy again and you can replace them with the files in your project.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7h3ystb6(v=vs.80).aspx
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i got sabre wsdl and tpfc connector services from sabre. also got their wsdl proxy class samples. Now these things are old, i mean their sample code is using .net framework 2.0, and proxy classes. Now its an old APPROACH, while someone suggested me app web reference which will create a .discomap , but i dont see any good reference tutorial.
So what i need to know is , a step by step guide or simple points:
1. how to add wsdl as .discomap web reference
2. how to use that added discomap and how it differs from proxy class.
recently i done some tinkering myself and added a webreference, but i still have no idea what steps i have used to add this.
thanks
To add a reference of one of Sabre's webservices you need to right click on Service Reference in your solution explorer and choose Add Service Reference. In the Add Service Reference window displayed, click on Advance locatetd at the low left side. This will display the Service Reference Settings window, click on Add Web Reference at the low left side of the window. In the URL field of the Add Web Reference window add the path where you downloaded the service files and wsdl or the online wsdl url.
Hope this information is helpful.
I understand that the WebRole module inside my Web Role web app project runs inside WAIISHost.exe and the rest of the app runs inside W3WP.EXE. Therefore web.config settings cannot be read from the WebRole app domain.
This can be solved by creating a special "waiishost.exe.config" in the web project file and set the "Copy to Output Directory" property to "Copy Always".
That's fine. However, now, I have config settings in ServiceConfiguration AND web.config AND "waiishost.exe.config". This is only a minor but annoying issue though. The biggest problem is that when I publish my Azure project, ServiceConfiguration and web.config get automatically transformed into the production values whereas waiishost.exe.config does not get transformed, so I end up with development config going into the production environment. (the production env is not live yet, so not a major issue yet)
Can anyone think of any ideas as to how I can also have the Publish process transform waiishost.exe.config? Maybe I could run some kind of startup process which could simply copy and rename the web.config file to be waiishost.exe.config before waiishost.exe starts.
BTW, I cannot simply move config to the ServiceConfiguration file as I have whole config sections and connection strings which are used by third party components, like the ServiceBusConfiguration section.
Many thanks
Yes, there is.
A little manual, but is "one-time-setup" per project. Check out this and that blog posts I've made a while ago (even before you could have ServiceConfiguration files). These blog posts will give you a great idea on how to achieve your desire.
Is there some sort of configuration settings in FlashBuilder 4.5 where you can easily switch between webservice urls? Right now I have to delete and recreate the web service every time I switch from local to production and vice versa.
The need/requirement is this – Since I work in a startup, we keep changing servers, and their IP addresses. And being a service oriented application – I need to be able to edit the webservice endpoints in my Flex application in a easy manner every time this happens.
My Solution for this -
Assumption is that my webservice endpoint looks like this -
http:////ListAllServices/
1) Create a file config.xml in a folder named “settings” that sits in the root folder of your Flex application – outside the “src” folder. And the config.xml will be a simple xml file of the following format -
localhostTestFlexApp
At the end of this exercise the directory structure of your flex source code will look like this -
flex_src(root of the source code)
-com(some source folder)
–testapp
—view
—
-images
-settings
–config.xml
-appName.mxml
2) Now in your application code, setup a HTTPService object either in mxml or action script. Set the url of that object to this value- “settings/config.xml” – And the above xml fiel containing the current settings will be loaded into memory .
Now you can store these values in a singleton object and construct your Webservice call at runtime.
And whenever you want to move this to a new server in production, edit the tag of your config.xml and you should be good to go.
And this can be automated as well via the EnvGen ant task.
This is not the best way but yes it is very helpful while switching among servers.
Alrighty... The way I was doing it before in fact worked. The problem was browser caching.
For the benefit of others I modified the subsclass for the generated service and replace the wsdl variable with whatever endpoint I need.
I want to make a "properties style web form" that shows the application version for various .NET applications.
If I know the URL e.g. /someapp/default.aspx is it possible via reflection to execute that page and figure out the assembly version?
It's quite easy to find the executing assembly version, but without modifying the other application, is it possible?
Both the property page and the other application is running on the same server and in the same application pool.
Update: I've had some luck with
var url = "~/SomeApp/default.aspx";
var appType = System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetCompiledType(url);
But navigating appType to find the assembly file version is not the same everytime.
Without modifying the web application to expose the version number through some URL-based retrieval (a simple page GET being the easy, obvious one), you're going to need to find a way to figure out where the DLL for the web application is from the URL.
If you can know the DLL's location, either by some convention (e.g. /appX/ is always at D:\Sites\appX\bin\appX.dll) or some configuration (you manually enter where each URL base's DLL is in a database), then you can retrieve that DLL's assembly version using the following code:
Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom("MyAssembly.dll");
Version ver = assembly.GetName().Version;
Code taken from this question.
Edit:
I've had a little look around, and there are some APIs to inspect the IIS configuration, so this is certainly a route to explore if you're trying to get from the URL to the assembly location. This question has an example of getting the physical path from the application/site name, for example. Microsoft.Web.Administration is the assembly to explore.
The ASP.NET engine streams nothing but HTML, javascript, etc.. to the client. There is nothing left of the assembly that gets passed in the response that can show what version of .net/asp.net that the application is running unless the developer on the server side adds it.
That said, you can gather some information from a utility at http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph that will give you some server information. Not down to the assembly version, but this is as close as I believe you are going to get.
You may implement custom HttpModule, put it to the bin folder of each application that you wish to monitor and append register this module in web.config files. In this module for example you should handle request, retrieve all required information and put it to response cookie.
In FlexBuilder 3, there are two items under the 'Data' menu to import and manage web services. After importing a webservice, I can update it with the manage option. However, the webservices seems to disappear after they are imported. The manager does however recognize that a certain WSDL URL was imported and refuses to do anything with it.
How does the manager know this, and how can I make it refresh a certain WSDL URL?
In your src folder of the flexbuilder project you should see the generated classes. For instance, if you use the manager to generate the proxy classes for www.example.com you should see the folders /com/example with the generated proxy classes inside.
To consume these webservices in ActionScript use the statement:
"import com.example.*;"
To consume the webservice in mxml include the .as file using:
<mx:Script source="yourscriptname.as"/>
To refresh the generated proxy classes, consuming the latest WSDL, simply open the manager and select "update".
Also, I found this article very useful for consuming web services.
I hope that helps, the question was kind of vague about the problem.