How to check if a web service is up and running without using ping?

Question

How can i check if a method in a web service is working fine or not ? I cannot use ping. I still want to check any kind of method being invoked from the web service by the c

Answer 1

You can write your self a little tool or windows service or whatever you need then look at these 2 articles:

C#: How to programmatically check a web service is up and running?

check to if web-service is up and running - efficiently

EDIT: This was my implementation in a similar scenario where I need to know if an external service still exists every time before the call is made:

bool IsExternalServiceRunning
    {
        get
        {
            bool isRunning = false;
            try
            {
                var endpoint = new ServiceClient();
                var serviceUri  = endpoint.Endpoint.Address.Uri;
                var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(serviceUri);
                request.Timeout = 1000000;
                var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
                if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
                    isRunning = true;
            }
            #region
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                // Handle error
            }
            #endregion
            return isRunning;
        }
    }