Hi,
    I am consuming a web service 
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/soap/eutils.wsdl) using C#.Net 2 
and in general it works just fine. But recently I have had trouble getting a 
specific method to work whenever I put a pound sign ("#") in a query string. 
When I added a backslash in front of the pound sign (@"\#"), it started 
failing in more graceful fashion, making me think that there was a problem 
with the way the pound sign was being transmitted and that the escaped 
version was closer to correct, but it is still not quite right.
   Does anyone know how else I might try encoding a pound sign to make it 
work?
Thanks!
Ethan

ps. This web service is very complex. I don't suggest you try it unless you 
want to spend awhile working at it. There is some documentation at 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/esoap_help.html and I am 
trying to use eSearch methods with an active history....

"Ethan Strauss" <ethan dot strauss at Promega dot com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>    I am consuming a web service 
> (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/soap/eutils.wsdl) using C#.Net 
> 2 and in general it works just fine. But recently I have had trouble 
> getting a specific method to work whenever I put a pound sign ("#") in a 
> query string. When I added a backslash in front of the pound sign (@"\#"), 
> it started failing in more graceful fashion, making me think that there 
> was a problem with the way the pound sign was being transmitted and that 
> the escaped version was closer to correct, but it is still not quite 
> right.
>   Does anyone know how else I might try encoding a pound sign to make it 
> work?
> Thanks!
> Ethan
>
> ps. This web service is very complex. I don't suggest you try it unless 
> you want to spend awhile working at it. There is some documentation at 
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/esoap_help.html and I am 
> trying to use eSearch methods with an active history....


How are you calling the web service? Are you using Add Web Reference?

There should be no problem with encoding if you are calling the web service 
via the proxy generated by Add Web Reference.
-- 
John Saunders [MVP]

Yep, I added the Web Reference.
Ethan

"John Saunders [MVP]" <john.saunders at trizetto.com> wrote in message 
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> "Ethan Strauss" <ethan dot strauss at Promega dot com> wrote in message 
> news:OTL6sIs2HHA.1484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>    I am consuming a web service 
>> (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/soap/eutils.wsdl) using C#.Net 
>> 2 and in general it works just fine. But recently I have had trouble 
>> getting a specific method to work whenever I put a pound sign ("#") in a 
>> query string. When I added a backslash in front of the pound sign 
>> (@"\#"), it started failing in more graceful fashion, making me think 
>> that there was a problem with the way the pound sign was being 
>> transmitted and that the escaped version was closer to correct, but it is 
>> still not quite right.
>>   Does anyone know how else I might try encoding a pound sign to make it 
>> work?
>> Thanks!
>> Ethan
>>
>> ps. This web service is very complex. I don't suggest you try it unless 
>> you want to spend awhile working at it. There is some documentation at 
>> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/esoap_help.html and I am 
>> trying to use eSearch methods with an active history....
>
> How are you calling the web service? Are you using Add Web Reference?
>
> There should be no problem with encoding if you are calling the web 
> service via the proxy generated by Add Web Reference.
> -- 
> John Saunders [MVP]
>