What I'm trying to do is build a flash front end for the store. I need to get whatever the cart is outputting (for example, product data) in an XML format that can be parsed by flash action scripting.


My original plan was to make a slight mod to the pages to just output XML instead of the display html, but it appears there aren't template html files that can be modified. Rather it looks like dynamic pages are built, perhaps by the dlls in the source code.



Has anyone ever done this before? I'd just like to not reinvent the wheel if anyone knows of an easy way to get to xml output.



Thanks in advance for any help!!

Thanks for the help Andy! I'll give that a shot!

IIRC, you use Membership_Login to get a token, then use that token in all of the other methods.

I'm getting a HTTP 500 error when I try and connect to the webservices passing in the token info. I'm using a get method to test and I've already modified the web.config to allow httpGet to work. It works fine for the Login method of the Webservices3 but I can get it to work for the [color=#6c2e19>Catalog_Category_FindAll]

Can anyone tell what I'm doing wrong?

Here's how I tested. I used the following url get method to return the xml for the Login method:

http://www.<mysite>.com/WebServices3.asmx/Login?username=admin&password=password

which returns:

<SPAN class=b> [/color] [color=#0000ff><SPAN]&lt;?<SPAN class=pi>xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" <SPAN class=m>?&gt;[/color]


[color=#ff0000>-]&lt;[/color]<SPAN class=t>[color=#990000>AuthenticationToken<SPAN] xmlns:xsi[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>="<B]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance[/color]</B><SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>"<SPAN] xmlns:xsd[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>="<B]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema[/color]</B><SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>"<SPAN] xmlns[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>="<B]http://www.bvsoftware.com/Schemas/Bvc5/2006/01/WebServices3[/color]</B>[color=#0000ff><SPAN]"<SPAN class=m>&gt;[/color]



<SPAN class=b>[color=#ff0000> ]&lt;[/color]<SPAN class=t>[color=#990000>Bvin<SPAN]&gt;[/color]<SPAN class=tx>d88757c0-069c-4799-b3e2-4be249992fcf<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&lt;/<SPAN]Bvin[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&gt;]


<SPAN class=b> [/color] <SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&lt;<SPAN]LastUpdated[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&gt;<SPAN]0001-01-01T00:00:00<SPAN class=m>&lt;/[/color]<SPAN class=t>[color=#990000>LastUpdated<SPAN]&gt;[/color]


<SPAN class=b>[color=#ff0000> ]&lt;[/color]<SPAN class=t>[color=#990000>ExpirationDate<SPAN]&gt;[/color]<SPAN class=tx>2008-03-04T18:56:13.389402-08:00<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&lt;/<SPAN]ExpirationDate[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&gt;]


<SPAN class=b> [/color] <SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&lt;<SPAN]ExpirationDateUTC[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&gt;<SPAN]2008-03-05T02:56:13.389402Z<SPAN class=m>&lt;/[/color]<SPAN class=t>[color=#990000>ExpirationDateUTC<SPAN]&gt;[/color]


<SPAN class=b>[color=#ff0000> ]&lt;[/color]<SPAN class=t>[color=#990000>UserBvin<SPAN]&gt;[/color]<SPAN class=tx>30<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&lt;/<SPAN]UserBvin[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&gt;]


<SPAN class=b> [/color] <SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&lt;<SPAN]TokenRejected[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&gt;<SPAN]false<SPAN class=m>&lt;/[/color]<SPAN class=t>[color=#990000>TokenRejected<SPAN]&gt;[/color]


<SPAN class=b>[color=#ff0000> ]&lt;[/color]<SPAN class=t>[color=#990000>IsExpired<SPAN]&gt;[/color]<SPAN class=tx>false<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&lt;/<SPAN]IsExpired[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&gt;]

<SPAN class=b> [/color] <SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&lt;/<SPAN]AuthenticationToken[/color]<SPAN class=m>[color=#0000ff>&gt;

I]Catalog_Category_FindAll:[/color]

http://www.&lt;mysite&gt;.com/WebServices3.asmx/Catalog_Category_FindAll?ExpirationDate=2008-03-04T18:56:13.389402-08:00&amp;ExpirationDateUTC=2008-03-05T02:56:13.389402Z&amp;UserBvin=30&amp;TokenRejected=false&amp;IsExpired=false



Which give me the HTTP 500 internal server error.



I'm probably just doing something dumb, but can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Would you (or anyone) happen to have an example of how to do this? I've been trying all day to get this to work and my eyes are starting to cross looking at it. My partner can't get it to work in actionscripting.


I wanted to do a test using ASP.NET and C#. I've been googling the how to pass parameters into a webservice but I can't get any of it to work.



Sorry to keep bugging you about this. :(

Thanks again Andy!

I can access the webservices with the code you sent. I'm then using XmlDocument to write out the xml tags to the browser in a separate page that my partner can hit and read with his actionscript. I know that's a total hack job, but that's what I can get to work for now.

I appreciate all the help!