hi,

the .net tools are not really suited for that kind of approach, which is called ContractFirst. but it is possible.

first you have to generate some .net types from the schema your webservice has to conform to. use the xsd.exe tool included in the sdk with the /classes switch.

use the generated classes as input and return types.

you can further customize the data that goes on the wire with the XmlSerializer attributes, e.g. XmlElement, XmlAttributes and so on. You can also use the [return:...] attribute to customize the return element name. Also take a look in ParameterStyle.Bare...

this should get you started.

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I am developing a webservice which is required to conform to a specific
schema definition, in terms of input and return parameters. If I set an
xmlelement data type to the reuired type name from my schema, I get an error
regarding the fact that the type is not recognized. How do i tell the
webservice to use a specific XSD to validate the input paramaeters, or do i
have to do the validation seperately and creat a WSDL manually.

Thanks in advance
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