Deployment of Web Service

Question

(Kind of novice to medium skill level)Just started looking at web servcies. Looking at one of the examples listed on this site (Google search). Got it to compile fine and it actually does the search as expected when i run it. But when I try to move the EXE it creates to another machine to show a friend, i get an error. I'm not sure exactly what else it needs, tried moving the DLL's over and everything that was in the Bin/Debug folder over without success. I guess i'm just missing something, probably easy too! -thanks

katana · Answer

Ok. When you move it to another folder or to another machine you need to make sure all the permissions are set up properly. These are the steps I go thru make sure you have administrator privileges on the machine first. 1. Create a new folder to put the webservice it. 2. Put all the .asmx files in the folder and the bin directory in that folder. 3. In IIS Admin create a virtual directory to that folder with whatever name you want to have for the webservice call 4. Make sure the permissions are correct on the Virtual Directory you may want to turn off Integrated Windows Authentication but it will work if it is on if you call it from the local machine. 5. If you are on your friends computer and using XP Pro or 2000 and after you copy the webservice you come across a Registry error let me know. I can tell you how to fix that as well. Hope that helps. Morgan

weaponzero · Answer

No both Machines have framework. Actually though to just test it out i'm trying to move it to another folder on my machine first.

james · Answer

Did the error have anything to do with MSCOREE.DLL or anything like that? If so it would mean that the person has to have the .Net Framework installed (available by download from Microsoft and is part of Windows Update)