Visual Studio .NET Cannot Process DBCS Characters in Web Services That Were Generated by the BizTalk Adapter for Web Services (822857)

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You use the BizTalk Adapter for Web Services to generate a Web service from a Web method call that contains Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) characters. When you try to add the Web service to a Microsoft Visual Studio .NET project, you may receive an error message similar to one of the following:

Runtime Error

Description:
An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed.

Details:
To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on the local server machine, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "RemoteOnly". To enable the details to be viewable on remote machines, please set "mode" to "Off".

-or-

Server Error in '/' Application.

Compilation Error Description:
An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.
Compiler Error Message: CS1026: ) expected

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, add a fileEncoding="utf-8" attribute to the globalization element of the Web.config file for the Web service, as in the following sample code:

<configuration><system.web>
<globalization
requestEncoding="utf-8" 
responseEncoding="utf-8" 
fileEncoding="utf-8"
/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

After you add this attribute, Visual Studio .NET can process the DBCS parameter names without experiencing errors.

Visual Studio .NET Cannot Process DBCS Characters in Web Services That Were Generated by the BizTalk Adapter for Web Services (822857)

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