Web Service Question

First you must forgive me because I am new to web services! My question/sit
uation is this. I have a messenger program (Windows Form based) that uses a
web service. Is there any way to check if that web service is online at an
y given time. I have read
where programs that use web services will "hang" if the service goes down.
Is there any way to make sure a web service is up before executing function
calls against it? Please post examples. I love this .NET stuff! C# is ver
y even for a former ja
va guy.
Thank you in advance,
DeanOn Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:32:01 -0700, Dean Bortell
<DeanBortell@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>First you must forgive me because I am new to web services! My question/situation
is this. I have a messenger program (Windows Form based) that uses a web service.
Is there any way to check if that web service is online at any given time. I have r
ead
where programs that use web services will "hang" if the service goes down.
Is there any way to make sure a web service is up before executing function
calls against it? Please post examples. I love this .NET stuff! C# is ver
y even for a former j
ava guy.
>
A web service is nothing more than a web page with a well publicized
way of sending and receiving data. Other than just sending something
and seeing what comes back, I dont know of anything else.
Of course, it should be something you can track as well. If you want
to have a client side timeout, you could do so on your side.