Hi Gary,
As for accessing webservice , the two means you mentioned( VS Add
webreference and wsdl.exe) are identical.
For general usage, both of them are ok and the VS "Add WebReference"
provide a more clean and convenient user interface.
The WSDL.exe is a commandline utility which can help you specify some more
advanced command options:
#Web Services Description Language Tool (Wsdl.exe)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...b6(VS.80).aspx
Also, for those files generated in VS project(after add webreference), most
of them are used by IDE. For actual webservice method call, the generated
proxy class is enough.
Hope this help clarify some. If you have any further questions on this,
please feel free to post here.
Sincerely,
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>From: "GaryDean" <gd**********@newsgroup.nospam>
Subject: ways to connect to web service
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:47:15 -0600
>
This question is about alternate ways to hook into a web service. If we
just add web reference in VS 2003 we got a wsdl, reference.cs, and
reference.map. In vs2005 we get a wsdl and a discomap. If we use
wsdl.exe
>we get a service.cs and then include it in our project. The first two
gave
>us entries in the web config. The third does not. They all work.
Why the difference? what's the difference? What are the pros and cons?
Thanks,
Gary
