Create web service proxy in Visual Studio from a WSDL file

Question

My application needs to talk to a web service that hasn\'t got an online WSDL definition. The developers however supplied me with a WSDL file.

With a public WSDL Vis

Answer 1

Try using WSDL.exe and then including the generated file (.cs) into your project.

Fire up the Visual Studio Command prompt (under visual studio/tools in the start menu) then type

>wsdl.exe [path To Your WSDL File]

That'll spit out a file, which you copy/move and include in your project. That file contains a class which is a proxy to your sevice, Fire up an instance of that class, and it'll have a URL property you can set on the fly, and a bunch of methods that you can call. It'll also generate classes for all/any complex objects passed across the service interface.