I have this webservice;

public class InfoSpreaderServices : System.Web.Services.WebService
    {

        [WebMethod]
        public void AddUser(int listRecno, string firstname, string lastname, string email) {
            if (!DataManager.EmailExists(listRecno, email)) {
                DataManager.CreateNewRecipient(listRecno, firstname, lastname, email);
            }
            
        }

        [WebMethod]
        public void RemoveUser(int recipientRecno, string email) {
            DataRow r = DataManager.GetListRecipient(recipientRecno);

            if (r["Email"].ToString() == email) {
                DataManager.DeleteRecipient(recipientRecno);
            }
        }
    }

and I try to use the AddUser method like this;

InfoSpreadServices.InfoSpreaderServicesSoapClient client = new InfoSpreadServices.InfoSpreaderServicesSoapClient();
client.AddUser(int.Parse(TextBoxListRecno.Text), TextBoxFirstname.Text, TextBoxLastname.Text, TextBoxEmail.Text);

But I always get this error;

The operation 'AddUserAsync' could not be loaded because it has a parameter or return type of type System.ServiceModel.Channels.Message or a type that has MessageContractAttribute and other parameters of different types. When using System.ServiceModel.Channels.Message or types with MessageContractAttribute, the method must not use any other types of parameters.

any ideas on how to fix this ??

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evildictaitor said:

It looks like you're trying to get the lexical difference between two dates (the lexical distance between 1 Jan and 1 Feb is the same as the distance between 1 Feb and 1 Mar - 1 month, even though it's a different number of days)

You've actually made a mistake though - it's 3 months only after we get to April 17:  (Jan17 --> Feb17 = 1 month, Feb17 --> Mar17 = 2month, Mar17 --> Apr17 = 3month)

To do it, you just do what you do for (long) subtraction  (writing the date in yyyy/mm/dd format is best)

    2009 / 04 / 06

 - 1982 / 01 / 17

 ------------------

     Y     / M   / D

D = 06 - 17, but that's negative, so we need to 'borrow' one from the month category. The number of days 'borrowed' is the number of days in the previous month:

   2009 / 03 / 37

- 1982 / 01 / 17

  ---------------

     Y    / M / 20

For M, we don't need to 'borrow' months from the previous column, since 3 > 1, but if we did, we would borrow the number of months in the previous year, which is always going to be 12.

The result is then

   2009 / 03 / 37

- 1982 / 01 / 17

-----------------

   27  / 02 / 20

So you are 27 years, 2 months and 20 days old

Dexter said:

Overall the code looks ok but what bugs me is the way you read data from the stream:

1) This code expects the stream Position to be correct (probably 0). Is that always the case? Maybe you accidentally passed in a stream that's positioned at the end?
2) You don't check the result of the Stream.Read call. Depending on what type is that stream it is possible that Read returns after reading less that the requested number of bytes.

yeah I'll check the stream a little more.

but what bugs me the most is that the code works in one app but not the other.

the only difference is that I dont declare the connection but get it from another object.

I'll start out to duplicate exactly the code and see if it works, and then look at the stream

private void SaveImageToDb(Stream imgStream, string contentType, int byteLength) {
    string sql = "INSERT INTO sysTmpImg_TempImage (sysTmp_recno, sysTmp_contentType, sysTmp_image) VALUES(@recno,  contentType, @image)";

    SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["myPetDb"].ConnectionString);
    SqlCommand com = new SqlCommand(sql, conn);

    byte[] biImage = new byte[byteLength];
    imgStream.Read(biImage, 0, byteLength);

    com.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@recno", Session.SessionID));
    com.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@contentType", contentType));
    com.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@image", biImage));

    if (conn.State != ConnectionState.Open) {
        conn.Open();
    }

    com.ExecuteNonQuery();

    conn.Close();
    com.Dispose();
    imgStream.Dispose();

    LoadImage(Session.SessionID);
}

(load image just loads the uploaded image)

From my real app;

public void AddNewTempImage(int usRecno, string tmpRecno, Stream imageStream, string contentType, int byteLength) {
    byte[] byteImage = new byte[byteLength];
    imageStream.Read(byteImage, 0, byteLength);

    string sql = "INSERT INTO sysTmpImg_TempImage (sysTmp_recno, sysTmp_US_recno, sysTmp_contentType, sysTmp_image) VALUES(@tmpRecno, @usRecno, @contentType, @image)";

    SqlCommand com = DataHelper.GetCommand(sql);
    com.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@tmpRecno", tmpRecno));
    com.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@usRecno", usRecno));
    com.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@contentType", contentType));
    com.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@image", byteImage));

    DataHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(com);

    imageStream.Dispose();
}

I'll even throw in the code for the DataHelper object;

internal static class DataHelper
{
    public static DataSet Execute(SqlCommand command) {
        DataSet result = new DataSet();
        SqlDataAdapter adap = new SqlDataAdapter(command);
        adap.Fill(result);

        return result;
    }

    public static void ExecuteNonQuery(SqlCommand command) {
        CheckConnection(command.Connection);

        command.ExecuteNonQuery();
        command.Connection.Close();
    }

    public static object ExecuteScalar(SqlCommand command) {
        object result = null;
        CheckConnection(command.Connection);
        result = command.ExecuteScalar();
        command.Connection.Close();

        return result;
    }

    public static SqlCommand GetCommand() {
        return GetCommand(string.Empty);
    }

    public static SqlCommand GetCommand(string commandText) {
        SqlCommand result = new SqlCommand(commandText, GetConnection());
        //result.CommandType = CommandType.Text;

        return result;
    }

    private static void CheckConnection(SqlConnection connection) {
        if (connection.State == ConnectionState.Closed) {
            connection.Open();
        }
    }

    private static SqlConnection GetConnection() {
        ConnectionStringSettings connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["mainDb"];

        return new SqlConnection(connString.ConnectionString);
    }
}

Even though Im using the datahelper, the result should be the same...

I've created a generic handler to display the pictures and this is the line where it fails;
System.Drawing.Image img = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(ms);

I could also include the code for the handlers, but since none of them can display anything I upload from my real app (but from my test app) I think the problem must be somewhere in the saving of the images.
I've checked the bytes and they match up in length from both the apps.

Any ideas ? I've been searching for answers for hours and now the sun is starting to come up so maybe I should get some sleep before I go crazy