How do I consume a webservice running on localhost in a project located on a vm?

Question

I am running a webservice on my development box and I need to test that webservice in a virtual machine that is running on the host(aka the development box). The webservice on the dev box is running at:

http://localhost:8100/ws_name.asmx.

From the VM I have unsuccessfully tried things like:

http://host_machine_ip/ws_name.asmx

http://host_machine_ip:8100/ws_name.asmx

//host_machine_ip/ws_name.asmx

//host_machine_ip:8100/ws_name.asmx

Is it possible to test this webservice from my VM?

Answer 1

If you are running this service in the Visual Studio's built-in web server bear in mind that this server doesn't accept remote connections. So you will need to host it in IIS.