Basic Example Needed To Communicate With ASP.NET 2.0 Web Service

[emartinez.gt@gmail.com]

First a little background. I'm trying to access a .NET 2.0 Web Service
from Flex. I'm very new to Flex and am looking into implementing it
during my next website deployment in my current position if I can get
it work for my needs. That said, I've tried every possible example
online (through Flex.org, several blog responses, etc) to connect to
a .NET web service and nothing works. I'm working w/both the Flex 2.0
SDK and the Flex 3 Beta 1 SDK and neither have worked in this
scenario. The web service I have built and deployed locally can be
accessed from the localhost (I'm running IIS 5.1 on Win XP Pro SP2)
and also can be accessed from other ASP.NET applications as tested.
Evidently, I'm missing something here. When I run the swf file that is
compiled from the mxml file, I get a blank screen w/"Waiting for
localhost..." at the bottom of the browser (Firefox 2.0) window.
Outside of the web service results, other controls (drop down lists,
buttons, etc) in flex work fine for me. I need to get this to work w/o
using Flex Data Services, etc. Heres the mxml code for one of the many
examples that I can't get to work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute" backgroundColor="yellow">
<mx:WebService id="myService"
wsdl="http://localhost/ASPNETWebServiceApp/Service.asmx?WSDL"
load="myService.Greeting('SomeName')"
showBusyCursor="true"/>

<mx:Label text="{myService.Greeting.lastResult}"/>
</mx:Application>

Here's the very basic Web Method inside the Web Service (built in
C#.NET 2005) that I'm trying to access:

[WebMethod]
public string Greeting(String strName)
{

return "Hello " + strName + "!";
}

Please dumn-down any responses pertaining to the Flex part as I may be
missing something basic in Flex.

Thanks for any assistance.
E.

[mojeza]

This is a sample of flex code sending array of integers to web
service. This should give you idea:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="vertical">

<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;

private function sendObject():void
{
var myArray:Array = new Array();
var i:int;
for (i = 0; i < int(countInput.text ); i++)
{
myArray[i] = valueInput.text + i;
}
dataService.SendArrayIntegers(myArray);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>

<mx:WebService id="dataService" wsdl="http://localhost/Service.asmx?
wsdl" showBusyCursor="true"/>

<mx:VBox width="800" borderStyle="solid" borderThickness="1"
backgroundColor="#eeeeee" height="276" horizontalAlign="center">
<mx:Label text="Sending Arguments" fontSize="14"/>
<mx:HBox>
<mx:Label text="Value:"/><mx:TextInput id="valueInput" text="Value"/

>

</mx:HBox>
<mx:HBox>
<mx:Label text="Items #:"/><mx:TextInput id="countInput" text="10"/

>

</mx:HBox>
<mx:Button label="Send Object" click="sendObject()"/>
<mx:TextArea fontSize="12"
text="{dataService.SendArrayIntegers.lastResult}" width="438"
height="148"/>
</mx:VBox>

</mx:Application>

[EMartinez]

On Jul 6, 6:28 am, mojeza <naj...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> This is a sample offlexcode sending array of integers towebservice. This should give you idea:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
> layout="vertical">
>
> <mx:Script>
> <![CDATA[
> import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
>
> private function sendObject():void
> {
> var myArray:Array = new Array();
> var i:int;
> for (i = 0; i < int(countInput.text ); i++)
> {
> myArray[i] = valueInput.text + i;
> }
> dataService.SendArrayIntegers(myArray);
> }
> ]]>
> </mx:Script>
>
> <mx:WebService id="dataService" wsdl="http://localhost/Service.asmx?
> wsdl" showBusyCursor="true"/>
>
> <mx:VBox width="800" borderStyle="solid" borderThickness="1"
> backgroundColor="#eeeeee" height="276" horizontalAlign="center">
> <mx:Label text="Sending Arguments" fontSize="14"/>
> <mx:HBox>
> <mx:Label text="Value:"/><mx:TextInput id="valueInput" text="Value"/
>
> </mx:HBox>
> <mx:HBox>
> <mx:Label text="Items #:"/><mx:TextInput id="countInput" text="10"/
>
> </mx:HBox>
> <mx:Button label="Send Object" click="sendObject()"/>
> <mx:TextArea fontSize="12"
> text="{dataService.SendArrayIntegers.lastResult}" width="438"
> height="148"/>
> </mx:VBox>
>
> </mx:Application>

Thanks for your reply. It turns out that a friend of mine lead me to a
utility that checks the SOAP messages coming from Flex, etc (http://
[url]www.freedownloadscenter.com/Network_and_Internet/Network_Management_Tools/IE_HTTP_Analyzer_Download.html[/url])
and the Flex side was looking for a file called 'crossdomain.xml' at
localhost. So I created this file and added in:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*" />
</cross-domain-policy>
and placed it at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ and everything started working.

Regards,

Enrique Martinez