How to test .Net Web Service

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Hi,

I am rather new to .net web services. I am writing a web service and I can test it under Visual Studio 2008 built-in Development Server.

Now, I want to call the web service from a windows application. How can test and debug the web service as and when I write the web service code? Do I need to run IIS and put the asmx file into the wwwroot? or can I test and debug it some other way.

I need to write the web service code and test it by calling it from the WinForm at the same time

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Posted 23-Mar-10 3:30am

Nejimon CR

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Nicholas Butler · Answer 1 · 2010-03-23T03:55:00

If you need to debug both the web service and the WinForms app at the same time, you need to run them both in their own instance of Visual Studio - i.e. run 2 instances of VS.

You don't need to use IIS - your WinForms app can connect to the built-in Development Server - just make sure to start the web service before the WinForms app!

Nick

Nejimon CR · Answer 2 · 2010-03-23T04:03:00

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Thats great! Thanks for the quick answer.

One more doubt. How do I set the web reference to the asmx, then? It will be available through localhost if I run both instances at the same time?

What is the usual standard that developers use for testing web service from a winform?

Posted 23-Mar-10 4:03am

Nejimon CR

Nejimon CR · Answer 3 · 2010-03-23T06:24:00

Hi Nick,

Thank you for the solution.

In fact, since your answer, I played around VS2008 a little bit and found a solution: Add Project feature, which is very handy.

You first start a Web service project and add a Windows Forms project to it just as we do in component/dll projects. This will enable you to run single instance of VS and debug both web and winform application simultaneously.

Thank you for the food for thought, anyway

Neji

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