This seems very trivial, but it is not working for me at all. I am attempting to call a soap web service from within my c# console application. The app is built for .net 4.5. Here's what I did:
Added the service reference to the project in visual studio 2013 by pointing it to the wsdl. It finds the Service and it's operations fine.
Attempt to create an instance of that service by doing the following:
ServiceReference1 s = new ServiceReference1();
I get the following error code:
Project1.ServiceReference1 is a 'namespace' but is used like a 'type'
Any ideas? I've searched for this for a while and can't come across someone having the same problem with a real solution. I will provide any more info needed.
If you already added the service reference to the project you see the reference. In this case you left a default name 'ServiceReference1'.
Now you want to call the web service's methods, for this you have to instantiate a SOAPClient.
ServiceReference1.YourWebserviceNameSoapClient client = new ServiceReference1.YourWebserviceNameSoapClient();
client.HelloWorld(); // call of webmethod
now you access the webmethods under the 'client' object.
When you create a service reference, Visual Studio 2013 will generate a proxy class you can use to transparently call into the service. The default proxy namespace is your_project_name.ServiceReference1. The type is the name of your service.
For an example service http://localhost/YourService.svc.
You generate the Service Reference ServiceReference1 from your console project ConsoleApp. The generated files have the namespace ConsoleApp.ServiceReference1. The type is YourService.
var service = new ServiceReference1.YourService();
will return an instance of the proxy generated by Visual Studio. Then you will be able to call any of the service methods.
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I would like to build an app in C# that connects to an Apache AXIS web service and performs the following operations via SOAP.
Login in to the server.
POST string data to server
Receive and display server response
Here's the tough part. I do not have access to the server, nor do I know where the .JWS file is located on the server. I was able to get to the WSDL file in my web browser, so I know a "Login" operation exists as well as an operation to take in data.
I have tried accessing the web service via URL, but I keep getting this message:
Hi there, this is an AXIS service!
Perhaps there will be a form for
invoking the service here...
In summary, is there anyway I can connect to this web service when all I have is the URL of the WSDL file? Are web services accessible via URL?
Thank you
Use WCF, and generate client proxies to the web service using the svcutil.exe tool.
running svcutil.exe http://url.to/webservice?WSDL the_wsdl.wsdl /language:C# should generate proxy classes you can use in your C# project, and you'd call the service e.g. like
BasicHttpBinding myBinding = new BasicHttpBinding(); //might not even need these
// 2 lines if you ran svcutil.exe directly on the web service URL
EndpointAddress myEndpoint = new EndpointAddress("http://url.to/webservice");
TestClient client = new TestClient(myBinding,myEndpoint); //the generated classes
// svcutil.exe created
client.SomeOperation(42); // call an SomeOperation of the web service
Thanks for everyone's help. Looking back on this question, I can see how severely confused I was. Here is the solution I followed.
Assuming you know the URL of the WSDL file of the service you wish to connect to then just do the following.
Boot up Visual Studio
On the top toolbar navigate to Data -> Add New Data Source then choose Service in the new dialog
In the address bar, enter the URL of the wsdl file (EXAMPLE: http://server.com/services/displayName?wsdl)
Near the bottom of the dialog, change the namespace to something relevant to the project (EXAMPLE: sampleService)
Now Visual Studio should compile the client proxies for you that you can use to access the web services on your server. To access one of the services, all you need to do is create a new object from the class.
//Example
sampleService.ClassName test = new sampleService.ClassName();
test.displayName("Jack");
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb552364.aspx for a starting point
I have a webservice with .NET 1.1 (old school ASMX) and I am creating a client app to connect to it and use its services.
From what I remember from the last time I had used Visual studio -which was 2003 version!- I can add a WebReference to it and easily use it. Tried it . it still works.
but it looks like things have changed in 2008 and now we also have WCF. so I can add it as a Service Reference. but with this new method I could not find a way to create an Instance object to the ASMX service and call its methods... how do we accomplish the same thing with WCF?
Ok. done:
we should create a ServiceSoapClinet . an example from my play app:
using (LatestServiceSoapClient proxy = new LatestServiceSoapClient("LatestServiceSoap"))
{
label1.Text = proxy.Welcome();
}
I want to invoke a web service in my C# client application.
I want to be able to bind to this web service dynamically.
I am using the following code for dynamically calling a web service:
class Program
{
interface IInterface
static void Main(string[] args)
{
BasicHttpBinding bin = new BasicHttpBinding();
EndpointAddress endPoint = new EndpointAddress("http://api.wxbug.net/webservice-v1.asmx");
IInterface myInterface = ChannelFactory<IInterface>.CreateChannel(bin,endPoint);
}
}
My question is, how to I generate a ServiceContract Interface for my web service? Is there any tool to autogenerate this? This is because my target web service is quite complex with lots of exposed methods, and I dont want to write the Service Contract Interfaces all my hand.
The svcutil tool is what you use for this. This is also what gets run behind the scenes when you select "Add Service Reference" in Visual Studio.
If you are working in Visual Studio, then "Add Service Reference" will probably be easiest, as it should automatically start up your service in order to get the metadata.
If you can't or don't want to use Visual Studio, you'll need to make sure your service is up and running, and then use svcutil.exe (if you open a .Net Command Prompt it will be in the path variable). Using svcutil is sometimes necessary if you don't want to generate/overwrite the client configuration, or if you want to specify a specific class for the proxy to go in. There's also a handy switch in svcutil which will generate generic collections in the proxy, rather than defaulting to arrays.
You can to right click your project and to select Add Service Reference; it'll grab your web service WSDL and to create your proxy classes.
I am developing a c# desktop application and using a webservies which is developed in a php application when i try to consume that application. I just add web REference of that web service and try to access throught the following code
WebReference.TestWSDL pdl = new testingApp.WebReference.TestWSDL();
string copy = pdl.verify("testing");
it throws the error when i try to call the method verify. the error is
Possible SOAP version mismatch: Envelope namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ was unexpected. Expecting http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/.
and the web service link was like
http://171.139.101.12/code/index.php/webservice/wsdl
The error you are encountering is informing you that when you invoke the webservice, you are being given the WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) for the service - this is the metadata that describes the service functions, but cannot actually be used to invoke the service. Usually, you access the WSDL by appending either "?wsdl" or "wsdl" to the service URI.
There are two elements to the webservice you are attempting to consume.
The actual service exists at:
http://171.139.101.12/code/index.php/webservice
The metadata describing it, which Visual Studio via wsdl.exe used to generate a proxy, resides here:
http://171.139.101.12/code/index.php/webservice/wsdl
You need to edit the properties of the Web Reference and update the address appropriately. Alternatively, you can alter the properties of the pdl variable, and change the endpoint in code.
So I believe all you have to do with .NET 2.0 vanilla web services (not WCF) is the following:
1) Add your service reference. In my case I'm using the PayPal WSDL
2) Before you can use any proxy class, you must first create an instance of your service reference
3) Once you create an instance of your service reference, then just do [servicereference].ProxyClassName.Method or whatever you're trying to access from those classes
right?
Ok, so I tried that. I added a service reference and named it SandboxSoapAPI. So that's what you see under references in my C# project.
In code I tried this:
SandboxSoapApi reference = new SandboxSoapApi();
but it doesn't recognize SandboxSoapAPI. Am I doing something wrong? I just want to start calling class methods, etc. with PayPal and I can't seem to get this right.
And if I'm not incorrect, as of .NET 2.0+ it handles the low level sending of the actual request over Http for SOAP web service references?
SandboxSoapAPI is not the SOAP client proxy type name. It's a namespace.
To check this, in VS.NET tick 'show all files' and drill into the Web References, open up the Reference.cs file, you will see the SandboxSoapApi is a subnamespace (not your SOAP client proxy name!) in the project's root namespace.
So either use the fully qualified name:
SandboxSoapAPI.YourProxyType client = new SanboxSoapAPI.YourProxyType();
Or use using SandboxSoapAPI; in your code where you need the SOAP client.