Override Default Constructor of Partial Class with Another Partial Class

Question

I don\'t think this is possible, but if is then I need it :)

I have a auto-generated proxy file from the wsdl.exe command line tool by Visual Studio 2008.

Th

Answer 1

The problem that the OP has got is that the web reference proxy doesn't generate any partial methods that you can use to intercept the constructor.

I ran into the same problem, and I can't just upgrade to WCF because the web service that I'm targetting doesn't support it.

I didn't want to manually amend the autogenerated code because it'll get flattened if anyone ever invokes the code generation.

I tackled the problem from a different angle. I knew my initialization needed doing before a request, it didn't really need to be done at construction time, so I just overrode the GetWebRequest method like so.

protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri uri)
{
    //only perform the initialization once
    if (!hasBeenInitialized)
    {
        Initialize();
    }

    return base.GetWebRequest(uri);
}

bool hasBeenInitialized = false;

private void Initialize()
{
    //do your initialization here...

    hasBeenInitialized = true;
}

This is a nice solution because it doesn't involve hacking the auto generated code, and it fits the OP's exact use case of performing initialization login for a SoapHttpClientProtocol auto generated proxy.