Virtual directory name

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Hello all,

my installer allows user to install web service in users machine.

I have an issue here, in current installer user have the option to enter / choose virtual directory name. But if user changes the default name, my main application will not work as the web service URL refers to the default name of virtual directory.

What can i do to solve this? Is there a way to restrict the user from changing virtual directory name.(personally I won't recommend this). Or can we store the changed name in somewhere in web.config.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Sebastian

Posted 12-Apr-12 20:11pm

Sebastian T Xavier

Updated 24-Apr-12 3:33am

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bbirajdar 18-Apr-12 9:20am

The best solution would be to not to provide the user with the option to enter / choose virtual directory

Sebastian T Xavier 19-Apr-12 0:51am

yeah, but can you tell me how?

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Solution 1

in the declaration of the webservice you can set the URL property. So when the webservice gets installed it should store in url somewhere so the application can read that url.

Posted 13-Apr-12 8:07am

Herman<T>.Instance

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Sebastian T Xavier 16-Apr-12 0:33am

I didn't understand it well. can you make it more clear?

Sebastian T Xavier 16-Apr-12 1:14am

Do you mean, when we referring web service? meanwhile, my application is REST service .

Herman<T>.Instance 16-Apr-12 10:38am

read this: http://www.codeproject.com/soap/WSDLDynamicURL.asp

Sebastian T Xavier 17-Apr-12 2:34am

Yeah, Thanks for your reply and patience.
I got this scenario. But my case is slightly different. I have a web(REST) service, But I am not referring it anywhere. My setup project will install this web service to a server. A JAVA application will access this web service using URL to complete its procedure. In that case what can I do?

Is it possible to restrict the user from changing virtual directory name?

Herman<T>.Instance 18-Apr-12 14:00pm

if you have the setting of the name out of the user inputpart of the installer....

Sebastian T Xavier 19-Apr-12 9:32am

Can you please explain ?

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Sebastian T Xavier · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-25T02:30:00

Solution 2

This has been solved by removing "installation folder" node from user interface editor.

Regards
Sebastian

Posted 25-Apr-12 2:30am

Sebastian T Xavier