jh71283 said:
erictheman said:
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Eric. I'm not stupid, please don't assume that I am.

At which point did I indicate that I had not read the error message, and at which point did I point out any spelling errors?

My point was that you have changed the text of the error message as an example. that achieves nothing.
Hi there, Please put away the bats Big Smile

No need for bloodshed

as I posted in my first post the webservice running on port 9999 works fine as I access it with internet explorer. the service runs fine and the webservice updates the database as expected using http, it is not a problem with DNS nor Domain name, Eric is right in that respect.
the problem comes in with visual studio 2003 -2005 -2008. If I attempt to attach the webservice the wizard reports that it is looking on port 80 and not on port 9999, it starts looking on port 9999 then switches of to port 80. It looks like visual studio "thinks" that all webservices should run on port 80 by default and starts to look there, after it gets the original url from the wizard.
Eric thank you for your input. ill look at those urls now.
And I did change the log details for security Wink but please learn to be more patient Wink you could have just ignored those posts and answered myn. But thank you anyway.

The only text that was changed was domain names and ip addresses, the error from the wizard is the same otherwise.

My question is simple do I have to use port 80 or can I use any port I want ? and if I can use any port i want how do I do it

Thanks to all , and stop fighting please.

I found this is a common problem that the solution no longer works in vs2008
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/DotNet/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework/2004-05/1885.html

Eric is this you ?
http://www.developer.com/services/article.php/3649576