Generating a Web service proxy from a WSDL C#

Question

I am working with Fedex webservice. They did not provide a webservice URL like http://hostServer/WebserviceRoot/WebServiceName.asmx. Rather they provided a .wsdl file.

Please guide me in generating the web service proxy classes from the .wsdl file and adding a web service reference to my project.

I know to generate the proxy from wsdl like

wsdl /l:cs /protocol:SOAP /o:MyProxy.cs mywsdl.wsdl

but I want to know what it does. It may create the proxy class but how can I add the web service reference to my project?

Answer 1

If you are creating the proxy classes manually, you need only add them to your project. The Add Web Reference mechanism in Visual Studio is used to automate this process and add the types in.

The wsdl executable will read the WSDL file that you've downloaded ("mywsdl.wsdl"), and generate the proxy code, in your example in the C# language (in "MyProxy.cs"). You can add "MyProxy.cs" to your project and start instantiating instances of the generated client in your project.