Web Service without adding a reference?

Question

I have 3 web services added to service references in a class library.(This is a sample project for an API use) I need to move these into my project but i ca

Answer 1

Here's an example of how to call a "GET" web service from your C# code:

public string CallWebService(string URL)
{
    HttpWebRequest objRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(URL);
    objRequest.Method = "GET";
    objRequest.KeepAlive = false;

    HttpWebResponse objResponse = (HttpWebResponse)objRequest.GetResponse();
    string result = "";
    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream()))
    {
        result = sr.ReadToEnd();
        sr.Close();
    }
    return result;
}

Simply pass it a URL, and it'll return a string containing the response. From there, you can call the JSON.Net "DeserializeObject" function to turn the string into something useful:

string JSONresponse = CallWebService("http://www.inorthwind.com/Service1.svc/getAllCustomers");

List customers = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject>(JSONresponse);

Hope this helps.