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By Martin Heller
July 25, 2007

When I wrote about my Web Service Blues on July 11th, I had no idea that I'd still be singing them two weeks later. But I was. The short summary of the issue is that my unmanaged Microsoft Visual C++ Web service client couldn't parse the response from a Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Web service.

Every day or two, I'd think of something that could be wrong, come up with a way to test my hypothesis, do the experiment, and see yet another idea go down in flames. Maybe I was formatting the GUIDs incorrectly? We created another Web service call that took strings: ffft.

Maybe the response was malformed? SoapScope didn't think so....

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