.NET help needed

ringo747 · 29 Apr 2010 at 11:52

I am taking over some stuff from a guy that has recently left the project and need some help.

We have a project here than is basically a series of web methods. To invoke these the end users currently have to log on to the production box, run inetmgr and manually invoke services from the IIS browser.

I have to create a new web application that will be accessible across the network so that these services can be invoked without having to log on to the main box itself.

I have done bits of .NET in the past but really not sure where to start with this one.

Can I just create a simple ASPX project and then somehow create links to run and invoke the webmethods on the production IIS box?

Been a year or more since I have coded anything so not feeling too confident.

Thanks in advance!

kkbigal · 29 Apr 2010 at 12:39

If they're web methods as part of an asmx service, you should be able to reference the services directly via Visual Studio.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d9w023sx.aspx

You can then call the web methods as part of your own application

ringo747 · 29 Apr 2010 at 12:52

Thanks for that. So I should just be add a new website project to my solution and then add the web refs. That should be easy enough then.

kkbigal · 29 Apr 2010 at 13:32

Yep

However, something to bare in mind is what data is being sent back/forth between your application and the web service - is it private data for only certain people to see etc?

Some good info on web service security:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302428.aspx#c12618429_006

ringo747 · 29 Apr 2010 at 14:04

The UI will only have a way of the end user to invoke the web services. They won't actually see anything reported back to the website itself. Services just kick off some code to run against a SharePoint document library.