Consume a web service C#?

Question

I'm building a web service, and it uses an external web services (example http://www.webservicex.com/stockquote.asmx?WSDL) , how do I consume the external web service inside the web service im building?

Answer 1

As others have stated, add a web reference to your project.

This will give you a namespace that you can use in your project. Here is a snippet from one of my Utility classes.

using System;
//...there's more
using System.Text;
using WSDebug.patweb; //web reference to WSDL

namespace WSDebug
{
    class Utils
    {
        private static R12_WebService ws = new R12_WebService();

patweb is the name of my web reference. The web reference itself contains many classes. The R12_WebService class is the one that contains the web service methods outlined in the WSDL. The other classes and delegates are all eventargs and eventhandlers for our asynchronous methods.

Answer 2

Add a Service Reference to the external Web Service inside your Web Service Project.