Why not...?

A web reference does (ultimately) use SOAP. What it's doing is generating
.NET classes based on the services definition (WSDL) so that you can more
program against the web service using .NET types instead of having to shift
your brain into the more complex world of XML specifications surrounding
web services.

I could tell you to just build the SOAP request by hand with XmlDocument
and then send it use HttpWebRequest, but I'm just not sure you actually need
to go to that extreme. If you could provide us with some more detail as to
why you can't use a web reference I think we'd be able to offer you alternate
solutions.

HTH,
Dre

Hi Henrik,

You need to get a copy of the WSDL description for the service.  It is
possible that someone has either disabled automatic documentation (a config
option in ASP.net) or that the service was not built using a tool that
provides runtime discovery services.  Your  best bet is to contact the
party who runs/owns the web service, and tell them that you want to become
a calling partner and will need either their proxy logic, or their web
service description.

Regards
Dan Rogers
Microsoft Corporation
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Hi all,,,

I need to get a refferece to a XML-webservice, and get some data from
it....
But I can't add it like an web-refference... What options does I else
have??
I've been told that i've to use SOAP, to connect to it, but how??

Are there any good documentation for that?? all the examples that i've
found, is using web-refference..

Thanks