I am working on  Smart Device Application, using web services in it.
I am able to connect with web service, but when the response comes from the method that is called, i.e. dataset is returned. it throw this exception

WebException , the remote name could not be resolved

if i test it on local machine, it works fine. but if i use web service from a remote PC, i got this exception.
I have gone to many websites, each talking about this error, but i am not able to find any solution.....
Please advice on this issue..

Regards

 Hi Could you please go little deeper into the exception details by checking the innerException messages by using following code.

Try
    ' some code that is susceptible to throw exception.
Catch ex As Exception
    Response.Write(ex.Message)
    While Not ex.InnerException Is Nothing
          Response.Write(ex.InnerException.Message)
          ex = ex.InnerException
    End While
End Try

It would be giving u the detail description of what might be the problem.Also check that there might be some problem in connecting to remote server as exception implies "WebException , the remote name could not be resolved".

Regards.

Also please check this link out Bridging to External Web Services. I hope it would be helping you in this case.

Regards.

Better late than never, I suppose. I had the same problem and I stumbled across this post. This is hoping others find it useful.

Check if you have to use a proxy server to access external URLs. In that case, add the following to web.config

<system.net>

    <defaultProxy>

        <proxy usessystemdefault="False" proxyaddress="http://your-proxy-name.domain.com:port-number-if-any" bypassonlocal="True" autoDetect="False" />

    </defaultProxy> 

</system.net>
 

I had a similar problem and this worked for me.  

Like magic, Tarun.  Thanks for the tip.

I had a similar problem and this worked for me. My error was i have set bypassonlocal="true" Case Problem it should be bypassonlocal="True" Thanks