If I use Visual Studio.Net 2003 to generate "web references" for clients
using either sproxy.exe (for C++) client or wsdl.exe (for C#) clients, the
web service endpoint gets "baked" into the generated code, making it
difficult, if not impossible, to change the server that the client connects
to at runtime.

e.g. sproxy.exe generated code that looks like this ...

static const _soapmap __CCluProvider_GetCertificate_atlsoapheader_map =
{
 0xF0E178D2,
 "GetCertificate",
 L"GetCertificateResponse",
 sizeof("GetCertificate")-1,
 sizeof("GetCertificateResponse")-1,
 SOAPMAP_HEADER,
 __CCluProvider_GetCertificate_atlsoapheader_entries,
 0,
 0,
 -1,
 SOAPFLAG_NONE | SOAPFLAG_PID | SOAPFLAG_DOCUMENT | SOAPFLAG_LITERAL,
 0x2C42131A,
 "http://localhost/CluServer/",
 L"http://localhost/CluServer/",
 sizeof("http://localhost/CluServer/")-1
};

and wsdl.exe generate code like this ...

   /// <remarks/>
   [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
   [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
   [System.Web.Services.WebServiceBindingAttribute(Name="CluProviderSoap",
Namespace="http://localhost/CluServer/")]
   public class CluProvider :
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol {

       /// <remarks/>
       public CluProvider() {
           this.Url = "http://localhost/CluServer/CluProvider.asmx";
       }

       /// <remarks/>

[System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("http://localhost
/CluServer/CanConnect", RequestNamespace="http://localhost/CluServer/",
ResponseNamespace="http://localhost/CluServer/",
Use=System.Web.Services.Description.SoapBindingUse.Literal,
ParameterStyle=System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)]
       public bool CanConnect() {
           object[] results = this.Invoke("CanConnect", new object[0]);
           return ((bool)(results[0]));
       }

Is there an elegent, idiomatic technique for changing the server endpoint at
runtime with these "generated" proxies or is it necessary to 'hand craft'
your own proxy code if you want to change the server at runtime?

Changing the server endpoint at runtime seems like a reasonable thing to
want to do, or have I missed something?

Andy