How do I take schemas from a third party Web Service (along with URL) and get it as a Web Reference in an ASP.NET Project?

Assume that we've a web service @ http://localhost/websvc/strsvc.asmx. In order to add a web reference to this service the way you asked, you must follow the following steps:

1) Open Visual Studio.NET Command prompt.

2) Enter command: disco http://localhost/websvc/strsvc.asmx /out:c:\websvc; Press enter. The disco.exe tool will generate some files that contain info about the web service in the specified directory (c:\websvc).

3) Enter command: wsdl c:\websvc\strsvc.wsdl /l:cs /o:c:\websvc\strsvc.cs; Press enter. The wsdl.exe tool will generate a C# source file containing the proxy class for the web service.

4) Create a new Windows Application project in Visual Studio.NET.

5) Add a reference to the assembly System.Web.Services.dll.

6) Right-click your project, select Add Existing Item, browse to c:\websvc and open strsvc.cs.

7) That's all! You've a web reference to your web service. Now you can create instances of your web service and invoke methods on it.

For detailed information on how the disco.exe and wsdl.exe tools work, please look into the .NET Framework SDK Documentation.

Regards,

ejan

I may be missing something, but can't you let VS.NET do all the hard work? All you need to do is right-click the project, choose Add Web Reference, browse to the service, click Add and be done with it....

Or is there an advantage of using the disco tool??

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

You're right. That's the easiest way of doing that. But, the thing is, I assumed Alderian72 already knew that method. After all, someone talking about web services should know, at the very least, that we can add reference to a web service by right cliking a project and selecting Add Web Reference. So, I went the other way around.

Any way, now Alderian72 knows both the ways of doing the same thing: adding a reference to a web service :D.

ejan

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but following the method I just get a warning that no classes were generated.
The disco part worked and the files were created there
I'd use the IDE method to add a web reference if I could figure out the proxy crap that just messes up IE for me.
In either case, I'm getting frustrated with this process.
TIA for any suggestions and by the way, I'm working with VB rather than C#
Tim

Well, I tried adding the web reference to my project using the files generated by using the disco utility and voila! I can add a web reference to my project.
I can't understand why i couldn't just go to the web service I had created when making the sample project in the distributed application walkthrough. All I got from that was a bunch of errors.
anyway..........thanks Ejan for your tip. I tried using MSDN documentation and their command line methods to no avail.
I'm probably going to be making lots of requests in this forum.

Well as expected, unless I can generate a class I can't use the web reference properly
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