Commerce Server General - Checking MarketingWebService

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Checking MarketingWebService

Tbone

2006-03-09, 5:52 pm

Has anyone written anything that checks that the web service is running
before trying to consume?

We are running price breaks by quanity in Discount Manager. This has been a
weak link in our web app and I'd like to check that the service is available,
if not bypass executing the code that displays the price break.

WenJun Zhang[msft]

2006-03-10, 7:53 am

Hi,

I don't know if anybody has written some wrapped classes to perform the
checking.

However it shouldn't be difficult if you use some code to do it. To see if
the WebService site is online, just use HttpWebRequest to send a request to
the server and see if the response is 200. To check if the web service is
available, you can call it at first and try/catch this.

Thanks.

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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