I can say that I've been using a web service backend for most of the processing in my app, have made probably close to 100-200 calls while developing it and I've never had it timeout. Are you thinking the unreliability is innate to web services or just the way Monotouch handles them?
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:23 PM, simarx <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - I am developing an iPhone application where I am consuming Soap > web-services using the standard mechanism provided by MonoDevelop whereby I > am adding a web-reference to the web-service and then calling it's methods. > > On occasion, I do find calls to methods timeout in an inconsistent manner > when I know it's not down to a poor net connection. > > Is there any advice as to whether I should consider using alternative code > to consuming web-services? > > I've read elsewhere that it may be more reliable to Post data directly and > process the results myself - using NSMutableUrlRequest for example. > > I don't really want to put this effort in unless it's going to make a > difference. > > Any advice? > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/Web-services-vs-other-tp3946648p3946648.html > Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >
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