July 6, 2002 - Testing the add Web Service

Yehuda Shiran July 6, 2002
Testing the add Web Service
Tips: July 2002

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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You can test a Web service before you consume it from a DHTML or an ASP.NET page. A Web service is an entity by itself, besides providing services to its consumers. Suppose you put simpleCalc.asmx in c:\inetpub\wwwwroot\Webreference. Browse http://localhost/Webreference/simpleCalc.asmx. The window lists the Web service's methods. In our case, there is only one method, add. Click the add link and discover a way to test your Web service. Here is how you input the two numbers to add:

And here is the output window with the Web service's http reply:

Notice we input the numbers 5 and 4, and indeed got 9 in the http reply.

To learn more about JScript .NET, go to Column 112, JScript .NET, Part VI: Creating IE Web Services.

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