Creating and Consuming Web Services in Visual Basic®

Configuring the Application

When you're finished setting up the database, you should create a new ASP.NET Web Application on your test server. In the sample code, the Web application is called WS_Ch15. When that is done, you'll need to make a few server changes to allow this application to work. One of the Web Services that you'll use returns a long stream of XML, which will need to be converted for use with the Web page. One of the easier ways to do this is to write the string to a text file and then read it into the DataSet using the ReadXML function. To do this, however, the ASP.NET worker process (the user ID is ASPNET) needs to have access to write to the server at some location. Find a directory to use and give the ASPNET user ID Full Control ...