Generating a WSDL for your Web Service

[Water Cooler v2]

How do you create a .wsdl file for a Web Service you are developing
using Visual Studio .NET 2003?

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Adding a web reference to the web service will do that for you.

Ken

 

[CMM]

I never had to create a web service in 2003 (used remoting exclusively)...
but I do know that in VS2005 you can get the "at-runtime" generated wsdl
file by just running your web service project and clicking on the "Service
Description" link (or pointing your browser direcly to the web service app
url http://localhost/mywebservice for instance).

Maybe there's something similar in 2003?

 

[m.posseth]

Well normally you can reference the soap by just adding ?wsdl after the
webservice call


however it is possible to just create wsdl documents with this Framework
tool

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...tml/cpgrfwebservicesdiscoverytooldiscoexe.asp

and then you can create a proxy class out of that with this frwamework tool

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...webservicesdescriptionlanguagetoolwsdlexe.asp

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]

 

[Anand[MVP]]

If you have already written the web service, then using <url of service>?wsdl
will get you the WSDL