I'm very new at this and I tried to create a basic web method that returns a string. On my development server it works fine, there's an Invoke button for me to press. However, when I publish the code to my production server the invoke button dissapears. I believe it might have something to do with the namespace but I don't know what to change it to. Any help would be appreciated!
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Hi There,
once you have deployed the webservice to production you can make a call to it remotely and obtain it's methods using the tool below. Then you can make a call to it each method and get back the contents of the message. Give it a try.
sean
http://www.gotdotnet.com/C
what do you mean?
all I am saying, is that the test page, with the invoke button, is only available locally, so when you try test it on your development machine, that functionality is there, and if you can actually log on to any machine that has the web service installed on it, and access it using a web browser 'on that machine' it will be there, but you will not be shown that built in test page to test web services remotely.
most likely, or in most environments anyway, developers will not be able to log on to production servers, which means, you either have to use a tool like 'bullrout' suggested, which looks pretty handy BTW, or you'll have to build your own version of something like it, or a test page or application of some sort that calls it programmatically.
If that is what you want, that is a different question. :)
Create a application, doesn't matter what kind, under web references you can add a web reference to the web service by just typing in the url to the .asmx and visual studio will write all the code for calling it for you.
then it will look just like any other class pretty much, create an instance of it,
whateveryourwebservicename
sometypeofreturnvalue = ws.whateveryourtestmethodi
it doesn't get much easier....
so you just need to write a couple lines of code to call it to test it, once you have it referenced, without actually seeing your code, this is probably about as specific as I can get, just try it, and if you get lost, tell us what parts of this you got done, where you're getting lost, and we'll try to get you the rest of the way there.
posting any code you have would probably help.
no, you answered your own question... see the closing a question in FAQ
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by: steveberzinsPosted on 2007-05-03 at 16:49:01ID: 19027931
actually, you can't invoke web services except from the local machine. so, if you want to test it, you either need to write an app that will simulate a call to it programmatically, or you have to login to 'that' machine, and test it from there.