ASP.NET Web Service Tip of the Day

OK, you just built your web service in ASP.NET and have it working as expected on your local development web server. Your ready to put it out into the wild and you follow the instructions about changing the web service name space from tempuri.org to whatever you want to use. You xcopy deploy the web service *.asmx, *.config, and *.dll (bin folder) to your public web server. Next, you make sure that the web folder is set as an IIS application. You browse to the web service url to make sure everything is working and it responds with a message that says that it’s using the tempuri.org name space and you should change it. What? But you did change it, what the h+ll is going on?

Well, the error is completely misleading… it has nothing to do with tempuri.org name space at all. The real culprit… you are probably using ASP.NET 1.1 on your machine and development server and on the deployed server, it’s set to use ASP.NET 1.0. Upgrading the public web server to ASP.NET 1.1… all works as expected ;-)