I've been writing a few web services for a .net app and now I'm ready to consume them. I've seen numerous examples where there is homegrown code for consing the service as opposed to using the auto generated methods Visisl Studio creates when adding the web reference. Is there some advantage to this?
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A:
No, what you're doing is fine. Don't let those people confuse you.
If you've written the web services with .net then the reference proxies generated by .net are going to be quite suitable. The situation you describe (where you are both producer and consumer) is the ideal situation.
If you need to connect to a web services that is unknown at compile time, then you would want a more dynamic approach, where you deduce the 'shape' of the web service.
But start by using the auto generated proxy class, and don't worry about it until you hit a limitation. And when you do -- come back to stack overflow ;-)
Leon Bambrick
2008-08-02 15:33:13
Just watch out if you're planning on using SSL. The proxies that are generated automatically won't allow you to change the encryption method on the service. For example, on an Oracle/Java web service I had to consume recently, I needed to build my proxy manually so that I could specify the ServicePointManager SecurityProtocol as SSL3. ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;
Mat Nadrofsky
2009-07-16 16:14:15