Web Services and IIS

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

I am new to ASP.Net. I have written a webservice in C# .net. It is compiled and built successful and while debugging, I can see it running in the system tray. But when I try to communicate with the webservice from my own PC using localhost address, I am not getting response. Is it due to IIS server not installed on my PC. I dont know whether IIS is needed to be installed for hosting a web service. Let me know if IIS is needed to be installed? If not what could be the problem?

Posted 28-Aug-11 21:20pm

ameem85

Add a Solution

3 solutions

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Brij · Answer 1 · 2011-08-28T22:13:00

Every web application need to be deployed on some web server. While working on VS IDE, it provides it own web development server. So if you have service in the same solution then you can add reference and you don't need IIS I guess. But if you have another project and want to use directly from localhost, you need host it in IIS.

One check you can try. Type the URL of webservice on IE and check whether you'll able the wsdl and method

kennytan_ph · Answer 2 · 2011-08-28T22:14:00

Solution 2

what is the URL you are using when accessing the webservice from your PC? Is it like, http://localhost/serviceName? If you are hosting the service on another machine, you should access it like this, http://hostIPorHostName/serviceName.

Posted 28-Aug-11 22:14pm

kennytan_ph

ameem85 · Answer 3 · 2011-08-28T22:23:00

Solution 3

Thanks for quick reply :)

Yeah, I am able to see the list of services from the URL. I am able to invoke the services from the browser. But it is not working from application where I have added the web reference for the webservice.

Posted 28-Aug-11 22:23pm