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Getting an Instance of your Web Service Reference

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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.

Wim Hollebrandse 2010-01-20 14:53:03

thanks. So I do see [projectnamespace].WebServiceReferenceName in that Reference.cs and I do have a using [projectnamespace].WebServiceReferenceName in my C# class where I'm trying to create that instance. The message I get when hovering over SandboxSoapApi is "Type name expected but namespace name found"

CoffeeAddict 2010-01-20 14:56:35

Yes, see my edit.

Wim Hollebrandse 2010-01-20 14:57:41

Ah thanks. I did not know that there is an additional proxyType for the client. I thought that the reference itself was an object.

CoffeeAddict 2010-01-20 15:02:34

You helped me a ton. I didn't infer all that even though yes I could have looked at the Reference.cs I still wouldn't infer to just go look for some client proxy class in the service. I wish there was better docs on .NET 2.0+ web services..without so much jargon. They use stuff like asynchronous calls..ok well I did not know that it's also inferred that under the covers it does all the low-level building of the request.

CoffeeAddict 2010-01-20 15:12:45

Additionally, and likely of interest, is that under the hood, the 'Add Web Reference' functionality in VS.NET simply wraps the `wsdl.exe` command line utility which generates the proxy client and data types. You can equally add the generated .cs file manually to your project if you so wished. You may want to play around with `wsdl.exe` a bit. It will broaden your understanding of what goes on. Cheers!

Wim Hollebrandse 2010-01-20 15:19:08

Yea thanks. I understand that the wsdl creates proxy classes. But in your example you're really talking about the soap client..not just any proxy class. Those are 2 different things.

CoffeeAddict 2010-01-20 22:09:53

Well, I meant the SOAP proxy client yes, not the data contract proxy classes. But usually you don't end up calling those proxy class, even though they are, but refer to them as the data contracts, data types whatever.

Wim Hollebrandse 2010-01-20 22:58:57

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