Adding a Web Reference for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2008

Question

Whenever I add a web reference for any Sharepoint web service in VS 2008, the preview window while adding the web reference shows the proper method names:
Note CreateFolder:

Before:

And after, the CreateFolder method is not there

I looked over the documentation at MSDN but it appears I am using it properly.
Can anybody point out my mistake?  Thanks

Answer 1

You need to create a reference to the Dws object in your code. Otherwise you can only see the static methods/types.

Try

DocumentWorkspace dw = new DocumentWorkspace();
dw.CreateFolder();

Not that normally I need to get a reference to a specific sites dws services, so adding the following code helps

dw.Credentials = [get the appropriate credentials, most often System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials];
dw.Url = [basesiteurl] + "/_vti_bin/dw.asmx";