I am new to using web services, however I believe I've found a bug when using Visual Studio 2008 Professional.

Steps to Recreate this:


1. Add Web Reference http://www.goavm.com/store/WebServices3.asmx - Name: BVWebService

It finds the service correctly, and lists all the methods in the little helper window.

2. Then somewhere in code:

Dim wsTest as New BVWebService.


And here VS Freezes. . . I actually let it go for around 3-10 minutes and it'll finally stop trying to do whatever it was trying to do, and then it won't find any of the methods or properties for intellisense. If I backspace the period and try again it'll take another 3-10 minutes. . . If I start typing, it'll take another 3-10 minutes to do anything. . .

This is very frustrating to not be able to do anything quickly with this.


I've tried this exact same thing in VS 2005 and it works fine. . . I can get the reference to the service and then manipulate it in code as expected, in seconds compared to minutes.



Is this a bug with VS 2008? Or perhaps the webservices need to be updated before we can use it with 2008? Or maybe is the code different for 2008? If anyone knows any kind of work around please let me know.


Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks Andy. . .


Yeah its definitely a bug with 2008. I will probably just develop it in 2005 and convert it to 2008 once its finished.


More info on the SP1 Beta (SP1 will be released this summer sometime): http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx




I'm going to try the hot fix (at https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=10826) and see if that fixes anything. . . I will report on it here once its done installing.




-- Update --

Well I tried the hotfix, and it doesn't seem to affect this problem. . . it still takes forever to get any kind of intellisense and freezes the IDE when using webservices with visual studio 2008.


I hope they fix this in the SP1, because after reading and learning out webservices I was really looking forward to using them. :P

Because it takes that long (2-5 minutes) to load EVERY time you try to do anything with it, instead of just loading once and then going quickly afterwards.

This machine has 3gb ram - intel Core 2 duo. . . and it does Not happen with visual studio 2005.


After you loaded the http://www.goavm.com/store/WebServices3.asmx service, can you then reference it and proceed to program using that reference? Does it try to load it every time you use that reference, or does it go quickly after that?

Also can you explain how you went about loading the service and reference it, in case I'm doing something wrong. . .

Brian,

See if the resolution to this post helps:

http://forums.bvcommerce.com/default.aspx?f=78&m=54309

I had a problem compiling when I referenced a webservice in VS2008.