VB.NET Web Services

Ok, I am having a complete ***** of a time with .NET Web Services, so I am hoping someone here knows more about the things than I.

We have a piece of software running on server1, which has it's own web service Q. All of this is linked through DLL's so I can't mess with it. Needless to say, it makes basic calls to a database on SQL Server.

I am writing a web service in VB.NET on server2 using Visual Studio 2003, we'll call it P for now. Essentially I am using P as an overlay to Q, joining some of the simple methods of Q together into more complex methods in P; which can be further called by other programs.

The problem is thus; every time I make one of these complex calls of server2.P->server1.Q, there ends up being resultant threads open (cursorfetch_1) on the SQL Server. These threads buid up and up until the SQL Server explodes.

As far as I can tell though, my code is legit. Can anyone else confirm?

I can't exactly remember my code, so I will pseudo it a bit below:

Web Service P:

Code:

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    Quote:
    Function getClientID(clientName)
    {
    Dim WSQ = New server1.Q
    Return WSQ.GetParticipantByID(clientName)
    WSQ = Nothing
    }

    Function getNotify(clientID, URL)
    {
    Dim WSQ = New server1.Q
    Return WSQ.GetAccessAssessmentNotify(clientID, URL),
    WSQ = Nothing
    }

    Function getSchedule(clientName)
    {
    Dim CID = getClientID(clientName)
    Dim ReturnList

    Dim WSQ = New server1.Q
    Dim ScheduleList = WSQ.GetScheduleByParticipant(CID)

    For Each Schedule in ScheduleList
    ReturnList.Add (getNotify(CID, Schedule.URL))
    Next

    Return ReturnList

    ReturnList = Nothing
    WSQ = Nothing
    ScheduleList = Nothing
    }

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Actual code from one of the methods:

Code:

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<WebMethod(Description:="Get a ParticipantID from a CSLogin")> _
Public Function getParticipantID(ByVal CSLogin As String) As String
'Security Header
Dim QMSecurityHeader As New uk.ac.essex.serntxx.SecurityHeader
QMSecurityHeader.ClientID = QMWClientID
QMSecurityHeader.Checksum = QMWChecksum

'First grab a QMWISe header
Dim QM As New uk.ac.essex.serntxx.QMWISe
QM.Security = QMSecurityHeader
QM.Timeout = 1000 'ms
'=====================================================================

'Declare Variables
Dim ParticipantID As String

Try
'We could pass this into a participant object, or we can just grab straight from the call
ParticipantID = QM.GetParticipantByName(Trim(CSLogin)).Participant_ID.ToString()
Catch ex As Exception
'Failed - Participant already exists?
ParticipantID = Nothing
End Try

'Return
Return ParticipantID

'Kill the QMWISe object
QMSecurityHeader = Nothing
QM.Abort()
QM.Dispose()
QM = Nothing
GC.Collect()
End Function

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If I understood your post correctly, service Q accesses the SQL but you don't have control over it. So if it mismanages in any way its SQL connections or whatever, you can't control that from P.