What other program does a Web Service Require besides Visual Studi

[DTran]

Hello all,

Can I just make a functional web service with Visual Studios, or do I also
need Sharepoint and/or Infopath Forms Services?

My goal is to build a web service so users can upload files to a database,
but am unsure if I will need to purchase anything else besides Visual Studio.

Cheers,
David

 

[Marian]

You can build fully functional webservice in Visual Studio (VS) . Do you
want to submit the files via infopath ? If yes than you need the sharepoint
and Infopath Services. If you want it make very simple than just create
webservice and a webform which calls the webservice. You can do it in visual
studio express - it's free.

 

[DTran]

Thanks for the quick response. And yes, the goal is to submit files via
InfoPath, something along the lines of what this guy was saying
(http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en.../thread/45b882dd-900e-44a3-9034-99677f1eecf4/).
Is there an alternative for submitting files with Sharepoint and Infopath
forms service?

 

[Marian]

If you need only a web for file sending than do it in Visual Studio its more
better than infopath for simple file upload. You can do all things there
like: file filterning by extension or by size and the file is just uploaded
to directory its work for 10 minutes If you will need help with something
let me know.

 

[DTran]

Well, we want to submit data as well as a file, so a straight-up web service
doesn't seem to be the answer. When you say that submitting files to a
database requires Sharepoint, are you talking about the server, or the
service? And I guess I should've made clear that we have Infopath 2003, so
does Sharepoint still apply?