Cannot add service reference

Question

I'm trying to consume a SOAP web-service, specifically:

http://api.affiliatewindow.com/v4/AffiliateService?wsdl

However - after using the standard Webservices dialog to add a service reference - none of the operations are available on the generated classes - it's just empty:

I've tried changing all different combinations of options on the 'add reference' dialogue.

Is there another approach to adding references of this type?

(note: in order to actually invoke the operations, the service is expecting a username/password header - Perhaps I need to include that whilst generating the classes? If so - how?)

Answer 1

I used the Web Services Description Language Utility (Wsdl.exe) to generate the proxy class manually.

wsdl http://api.affiliatewindow.com/v4/AffiliateService?wsdl /namespace:AffiliateWindow

I like using namespace option so none of the objects with have a conflict with my current solution.

Then I can add the resulting code file to your solution. I have attached a screenshot of the Object Browser from the solution:

Now, you can instantiate the service as you wish:

// I don't know anything about Affiliate Window - but I am assuming you would use it
// like the following code below

AffiliateWindow.UserAuthentication auth = new AffiliateWindow.UserAuthentication();
auth.sType = AffiliateWindow.UserType.affiliate;
auth.sPassword = "123456";

AffiliateWindow.ApiService svc = new AffiliateWindow.ApiService();
svc.UserAuthenticationValue = auth;