Question

We use ADP for employee information. I had to create a small app that called some web services that ADP has to pull employee information. The app is fairly procedural..not really object orientated in a sense. Basically I go through some web services to pull general information, work information, employee status, etc.

I have most of this data writing out to a text file as a log so I can ensure that everything is working correctly. Finally got it all done, and it works perfect on my local machine. Thought I’d just copy the entire structure onto a server and use windows scheduler to schedule the exe to run nightly (once a day). When it tries to run the app it looks like it is dying when it calls the first web service. The task scheduler log says:

""ADP.job" (ADP.exe)
    Started 2/11/2010 2:14:34 PM
"ADP.job" (ADP.exe)
    Finished 2/11/2010 2:14:38 PM
    Result: The task completed with an exit code of (e0434f4d)."

So I checked the event viewer and it says this:

EventType clr20r3, P1 adp.exe, P2 1.0.0.0, P3 4b745bb9, P4 adp, P5 1.0.0.0, P6 4b745bb9, P7 289, P8 2d, P9 system.io.filenotfoundexception, P10 NIL.

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I put in some console.writelines to see where it is failing…

Here is a simple example of main:

 static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            OpenTextFile();

            Console.WriteLine("About to process employee work information...");
            tw.WriteLine("About to process employee work information...");
            //work info service
            EmpWorkInfo();
         }

And inside of opentextfile:

  public static void OpenTextFile()
        {
            //used to log data
            String sLogName;
            Console.WriteLine("Inside of opentextfile");
            if (Directory.Exists(logPath))
            {
                //directory exists
            }
            else
            {
                Directory.CreateDirectory(logPath);
            }
            Console.WriteLine("Inside of opentextfile2");
            sLogName = "log_" + DateTime.Today.ToString("MM_dd_yyyy") + ".txt";
            tw = new StreamWriter(logPath + sLogName);
        }

I see all the console.writelines on the server but as soon as it hits this line from main:

EmpWorkInfo();

Thats when all hell breaks lose (basically it doesn’t work). The EmpWorkInfo() is simply a function to get work related information from a web service (as I said this works locally).

static void EmpWorkInfo()
{
    Console.Writeline("THIS NEVER PRINTS!!!");
    SQLClass s=null;
    // Create the web service proxy client.
    GetEmployeeWorkInfoService oService = new GetEmployeeWorkInfoService();
    oService.Timeout = Int32.MaxValue;
    // Serialize the UsernameToken into XML.
    // Create the UsernameToken as defined in the WS-I secure profile.
    UsernameToken oUsernameToken = new UsernameToken(USERNAME, SECRET);

    System.Xml.XmlElement oSecurityHeaderXml =
    oUsernameToken.GetXml(new System.Xml.XmlDocument());

    ADP.GetEmployeeWorkInfoWebService.SecurityHeaderType oSecurityHeader = new ADP.GetEmployeeWorkInfoWebService.SecurityHeaderType();
    oSecurityHeader.Any = new System.Xml.XmlElement[] { oSecurityHeaderXml };
    oService.Security = oSecurityHeader;

    GetEmployeeWorkInfoRequestFilter oFilter = new GetEmployeeWorkInfoRequestFilter();

    //filter by thyssenkrupp company
    oFilter.Companies = new String[] { COMPANY_IDENTIFIER };

    GetEmployeeWorkInfoRequest oRequest = new GetEmployeeWorkInfoRequest();
    oRequest.Filter = oFilter;

    try
    {
        EmployeeWorkInfoType[] arPersonalInfo = oService.GetEmployeeWorkInfo(oRequest);
        try
        {
            s = new SQLClass();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            throw new System.Exception(e.Message.ToString());
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < arPersonalInfo.Length; i++)
        {

            String stID = arPersonalInfo[i].EmployeeKey.Identifier.EmployeeId;  //employee number
            String stEmailAddress = arPersonalInfo[i].WorkInfo.EmailAddress;    //employee email address (work)
            String stFax = arPersonalInfo[i].WorkInfo.Fax;                      //employee fax number
            DateTime dtHireDate = arPersonalInfo[i].WorkInfo.OriginalHireDate;

            String stPhone = arPersonalInfo[i].WorkInfo.Phone;                  //employee phone number
            String stWireless = arPersonalInfo[i].WorkInfo.Wireless;            //employee wireless number
            tw.WriteLine("Processing ID:" + stID + " Email Work: " + stEmailAddress + " Fax Work: " + stFax + " Hire Date: " + dtHireDate + " Phone Work: " + stPhone + " Wireless Work: " + stWireless + ".");
            Console.WriteLine("Processing ID:" + stID + " Email Work: " + stEmailAddress + " Fax Work: " + stFax + " Hire Date: " + dtHireDate + " Phone Work: " + stPhone + " Wireless Work: " + stWireless + ".");
            s.SetSQLCommand("dbo.ADP_uiEmployeeWorkInfo");
            s.AddSQLCmdParameter("@EmployeeNumber", System.Data.SqlDbType.VarChar, stID);
            s.AddSQLCmdParameter("@EmailAddress", System.Data.SqlDbType.VarChar, stEmailAddress);
            s.AddSQLCmdParameter("@Fax", System.Data.SqlDbType.VarChar, stFax);
            s.AddSQLCmdParameter("@HireDate", System.Data.SqlDbType.DateTime, dtHireDate);
            s.AddSQLCmdParameter("@Telephone", System.Data.SqlDbType.VarChar, stPhone);
            s.AddSQLCmdParameter("@Mobile", System.Data.SqlDbType.VarChar, stWireless);
            s.SQLExecuteNonQuery();                   

            Console.WriteLine("Processed ID:" + stID + " Email Work: " + stEmailAddress + " Fax Work: " + stFax + " Hire Date: " + dtHireDate + " Phone Work: " + stPhone + " Wireless Work: " + stWireless + ".");
            Console.WriteLine(Environment.NewLine);
        }
        s.CloseSQLDB();
        s.Dispose();
    }
    //catch any exception from adp side.
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        throw new System.Exception(e.Message.ToString());
    }
}

This functions code is irrelevant (its ugly but do not let that bother you, the code works…). My issue is I cannot even get to the first console.writeline of that function. Is there anything special I need to do when it comes to working with webservices?

Edit

Logpath is defined as simply a static string outside of main:

private static string logPath = Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\log\\";

Answer 1

Found out I need the Microsoft.Web.Services3 dll installed on the server.