Export Web Service to Interface?

[Lucas Tam]

Hello,

I am in the process of developing a web service - at the moment, it is not
ready for development usage.

However, the methods are defined.

Is there a way to export the definitions to some sort of interface for
other developers to use in the meanwhile? (Note I don't have a web server
at the moment to upload the WS to... so it'll have to be a file?).

 

[Lucas Tam]

Hello,

I am in the process of developing a web service - at the moment, it is
not ready for development usage.

However, the methods are defined.

Is there a way to export the definitions to some sort of interface for
other developers to use in the meanwhile? (Note I don't have a web
server at the moment to upload the WS to... so it'll have to be a
file?).

Is a WSDL file what I'm looking for? Is there a way to export a WSDL file
from VS.NET?

Thanks.

 

[Peter Kelcey]

Lucas,

You are correct, the WSDL is the file that you should provide to other
developers to build against. The WSDL represents the contract between
the client and the service and should be all the other developers
require.

You can access your WSDL withyour browser by browsing the service url
and appending "?wsdl" to the end.

Example

http://servername/directoryname/service1.asmx?wsdl

Peter Kelcey

 

[Lucas Tam]

You can access your WSDL withyour browser by browsing the service url
and appending "?wsdl" to the end.

Example

http://servername/directoryname/service1.asmx?wsdl

Thanks, that worked great.

I also found a good primer on WSDL and proxy classes at dotnetjohn for
anyone else interested:

http://www.dotnetjohn.com/articles.aspx?articleid=85

 

[Guest]

I believe you've also got a nice little tool called wsdl.exe Somewhere in
your visual studio tools.

You can use it to create the documents.

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