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C# call SOAP webservice from console application

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.

How to create and execute .net web service clients?

I need to create and execute a C#.net client that consumes a web service (wsdl).
I have used the wsdl.exe tool:
wsdl.exe /language:CS /out:c:\myTests\ http://localhost:8080/myTestService.wsdl
getting as output a .cs file that contains several methods but no main.
How do I create a client that invokes the remote method of the web service?

with no prejudice on why you ask this question and why are you implementing this thing of the past, you might want to try this :
var client = new myTestService();
var result = client.AvailableMethod();
hope this helps.

c#: How to consume webservice methods whose address is unknown at compile-time

I am consuming a webservice from a Java server. The webservice provides me with some methods that need. Up till now I have been using the method where I added the reference of the webservice in the project explorer, typed the address of the webservice and compiled it. But now I need it to pick up the address of the service at runtime from an xml file or something! is that possible?

There is Url property in generated proxy object that you can set at runtime. Covered in Creating the Web Service Proxy article on MSDN.
Sample from the article (shows how to also set credentials, you may also need to set Proxy):
var rs = new ReportExecutionService();
rs.Url = "http://<Server Name>/reportserver/reportexecution2005.asmx?wsdl";
rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
Note that above answer is for case when you don't know exact Url of server till runtime, but you have WSDL/sample server available at design time and able to generate proxy via add web service in VS (or manually).
Alternatively you can call service via other classes implementing "HTTP GET" like HttpClient and configure anything you want, but will need to do your own parsing of results.

How to call a web service with a configurable URL

I wrote a web-service. I wrote a website. I want the website BLL code to call the web-service.
I have a config table with this service URL. I inject the web-service URL to the calling code. What web client or socket in C# should I use that can receive a dynamic web-service URL?
I thought to use:
WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
UTF8Encoding response = new UTF8Encoding();
string originalStr = response.GetString(webClient.DownloadData(BLLConfig.Current);
But maybe there is more elegant way?
I'm loading the configs at run time from a DB table.
Here is how I tried to use a web-reference in Visual Studio:
using (var client = new GetTemplateParamSoapClient("GetTemplateParamSoap"))
{
TemplateParamsKeyValue[] responsArray = client.GetTemplatesParamsPerId(CtId, tempalteIds.ToArray());
foreach (var pair in responsArray)
{
string value = FetchTemplateValue(pair.Key, pair.Value);
TemplateComponentsData.Add(pair.Key, value);
}
}

You can add the URL of the web service as a Web Reference in Visual Studio and then set the Service.URL property to the value from the config

.NET has lots of built-in support for consuming web services... after adding the service reference to your project it generates the necessary code... whcih you can use as is - if you need to configure the URL the generated client class has a URL property which you can set accordingly... for an excellent walkthrough see http://johnwsaunders3.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/how-to-consume-a-web-service/ and see SOAP xml client - using Visual Studio 2010 c# - how?

Connect to Unknown SOAP Web Service

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