I have been provided to a wsdl file by another business to build webservice so that the other business can connect to service I build using the provided wsdl and xsd files. I am dot net developer using wcf. I want to know where to start having the wsdl and xsd files in hand.
Thanks
Hopefully, the schemas and WSDL are .NET friendly. If you want to use WCF, you can generate your classes using SvcUtil.exe.
svcutil -noconfig -serializer:datacontractserializer -d:../
-namespace:*,MyCompany.Services.ServiceName wsdl.wsdl Messages.xsd Data.xsd
The bad news is that svcutil actually generates the client side proxy so you have to manually go and remove the client and channel classes.
For a full description of this approach see Schema-based Development with Windows Communication Foundation.
In the article, they also talk about a Visual Studio add-in, WSCF.blue, that allows you to do Data contract generation (among other contract first development tasks).
The quick and lazy way of doing it is simply to use add reference in VS (assuming .net3.5 +) or add web reference for .net 2; and allow VS to do the work.
As ( http://andrewtokeley.net/archive/2008/07/10/the-difference-between-ldquoadd-web-referencerdquo-and-ldquoadd-service-referencerdquo.aspx ) says its basically a wrapper for the functions the Tuzo and Ben added.
Makes life easier though and with the 'Add service wrapper' you can use the advanced settings to automatically generate ASync classes & Data Contracts.