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TC - 07 Apr 2005 20:11 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to make some SOAP calls from within a Windows Forms app using
C#. Previously, these calls were used in VB6 using the SOAP SDK.

For example, let's say that I have the following URL for my SOAP calls:

http://mysoapsite.com/mysoapsite/soap.php

I wish to call a SOAP method named:

create_user

and I have 4 text elments that I wish to send named:

username
password
firstname
lastname

Can someone please provide a sample of how it is done in .Net? If you have
your own simple sample, that's obviously fine too.

Thanks & Regards,

TC

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SA - 07 Apr 2005 20:37 GMT

TC:

The first thing to try is to *not* use WSE if you don't need the WS-Security
and other standard specs that it provides. For simple SOAP calls, the
standard .NET way should do just fine.

In any case, even with WSE, obtain the WSDL of the service and let VS.NET
generate the proxy classes for you. That is the easiest way. It's not
guaranteed to work, because Interop unfortunately is not always smooth.

Once you have generated the proxy classes, you can call the web service just
like you call any other local object.

HTH,

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TC - 07 Apr 2005 21:12 GMT

Hey Sven,

You are a savior!

It is soooo much easier to make SOAP calls under .Net.

Wow!

Thanks for the tip. It totally put me in the right direction.

Regards,

TC

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TC - 13 Apr 2005 08:09 GMT

Hey Sven,

I am now having trouble reading the results of SOAP methods. Any advice?

Basically, when sending to the server, the following works great:

MySoap.MethodName(arg1, arg2);

However, let's say that I need to read the result or an XML file that is
returned? Then what?

I've seen some samples that using all of the following:

HttpWebRequest, ISoapMessageSerializer, XmlTextWriter, StreamWriter,
HttpTransport and SoapMessage

Is this because I need to use RPC/encoded message. Why wouldn't I have to
use this with all messages?

Regards,

TC

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