how to use a form of latebinding with webservices ??? and a .netclient

[M.Posseth]

scenario :

I had a remoting server , now this remoting server needed the ability to
comunicate with a Delphi 5 client, so i got the advise to switch to
webservices

now i rebuilded the Cassini webserver , so i can deploy it and
everything works fine

However i have one problem , and this is with my own .Net clients cause
i do not know how i get them late binded to a webserver ( on compile
time i never know where the server is )

i am able to do this with VB6 but i don`t know how to do it with VB.Net
:-( as far as i know you must set a reference in the development
stage with VB.Net however my app is beeing deployed so i never know what
the uri of the webservice is ofcourse the interface is alway`s the same
can someone point me in the right direction ??

Michel

[Dilip Krishnan]

Hello M.Posseth,
Instead of using add web reference try using the wsdl command like below

wsdl.exe /l:VB /out:proxy.vb http://localhost/service.asmx?wsdl /appsettingurlkey:myurl

This is generate code that would look like this...

theProxy.Url= System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSett ings ("myurl")

You would need to add a key to your client configuration file like this...

<appSettings>
<add key="myurl" value="http://hostname/service.asmx" />
</appSettings>

HTH
Regards,
Dilip Krishnan
MCAD, MCSD.net
dkrishnan at geniant dot com
http://www.geniant.com

scenario :

I had a remoting server , now this remoting server needed the ability
to comunicate with a Delphi 5 client, so i got the advise to switch
to webservices

now i rebuilded the Cassini webserver , so i can deploy it and
everything works fine

However i have one problem , and this is with my own .Net clients
cause i do not know how i get them late binded to a webserver ( on
compile time i never know where the server is )

i am able to do this with VB6 but i don`t know how to do it with
VB.Net :-( as far as i know you must set a reference in the
development stage with VB.Net however my app is beeing deployed so i
never know what the uri of the webservice is ofcourse the interface
is alway`s the same

can someone point me in the right direction ??

Michel

[M.Posseth]

Dilip Krishnan wrote:

Hello M.Posseth,
Instead of using add web reference try using the wsdl command like below

wsdl.exe /l:VB /out:proxy.vb http://localhost/service.asmx?wsdl
/appsettingurlkey:myurl

This is generate code that would look like this...

theProxy.Url= System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSett ings
("myurl")

You would need to add a key to your client configuration file like this...

<appSettings>
<add key="myurl" value="http://hostname/service.asmx" />
</appSettings>

HTH
Regards,
Dilip Krishnan
MCAD, MCSD.net
dkrishnan at geniant dot com
http://www.geniant.com

scenario :

I had a remoting server , now this remoting server needed the ability
to comunicate with a Delphi 5 client, so i got the advise to switch
to webservices

now i rebuilded the Cassini webserver , so i can deploy it and
everything works fine

However i have one problem , and this is with my own .Net clients
cause i do not know how i get them late binded to a webserver ( on
compile time i never know where the server is )

i am able to do this with VB6 but i don`t know how to do it with
VB.Net :-( as far as i know you must set a reference in the
development stage with VB.Net however my app is beeing deployed so i
never know what the uri of the webservice is ofcourse the interface
is alway`s the same

can someone point me in the right direction ??

Michel

Aha thanks Dilip
In the meanwhile i discovered that if you choose show all files in the
project tab you can also find there the proxy class that .Net generates
behind the scenes with some slight tweaking ( like adding a property for
the URL ) this can be easily converted in a "late" binded proxy class
( already played with it )

i will investigate the class that the wsdl.exe tool generates also
thanks for your help
Michel [MCP]