Setting web service location dynamically

[Nils Magnus Englund]

Hi,

I have a production, test and development environment for my web application
and a web service (The test web application connects to the test web
service, and so on).

Is it possible to let the web services location be set in e.g. Web.config? I
don't want to recompile the web application every time I move it to another
environment, nor do I want the code to be much more complicated than with a
hardcoded location. The web service methods and classes are identical for
all three environments, so I could let VS.NET talk to the development web
service for figuring out class definitions etc. (I just want the actual
communication when the web app is in use to be to the web service specified
by each environment).

Hope I made it clear to you what I'm trying to figure out

Thanks!


Regards,
Nils Magnus Englund

 

[Jimmy Tharpe]

Is it possible to let the web services location be set in e.g. Web.config?

The location is simply wherever you copy it to...

I
don't want to recompile the web application every time I move it to another
environment,

Why do you think you would have to?

-Jimmy

 

[Ollie Riches]

In visual studio change the property 'URL Behavior' of the web service
reference from 'static' to 'dynamic' this will automatically add an entry to
your web config for you


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[Guest]

Something along the lines of:

dim ws as new myWebService

ws.url = "http://999.999.999.999/My_Web_Service/Service1.asmx"

You could store the IP address in the web.config and just read it in before
setting the ws.url.

Hope this helps
Chris.

 

[Nils Magnus Englund]

Hi Jimmy,

Thank you for your reply, but I'm afraid you misunderstood - although I can
place the web service wherever I want to, I need to somehow be able to refer
the web application to the web service. How can I tell the web application
the location of the web service? One method is by hardcoding it into the
solution, but I wanted to do it dynamically, so I didn't have to recompile
the solution when changing the web services hardcoded location.


Regards,
Nils Magnus Englund

 

[Nils Magnus Englund]

Hi Chris, and thanks for your reply.

I think I indeed could do that, but that wouldn't let Visual Studio
automatically make the classes and return types I need to fetch data from
the web methods. It would however work great if I only used basic .NET types
for the web application <> web service communication.


Regards,
Nils Magnus Englund

 

[Nils Magnus Englund]

Hi Ollie,

Thank you! I feel slightly embarassed for not figuring that out by myself
That was exactly the kind of functionality I was looking (and hoping) for.


Regards,
Nils Magnus Englund

 

[Guest]

I don't understand what you mean that it would work great only if you used
basic .NET types. Changing the URL doesn't affect what the web service can
return. All it's doing is changing the location of the web service which is
what I thought you wanted to do. Did I miss something?

Chris.

 

[Nils Magnus Englund]

Hi Chris,

No, sorry, I missed something I thought you meant instantiating a basic
web service, not my own web service (missed the crucial _my_WebService
definition). Your method would work great as well! Thanks a lot


Regards,
Nils Magnus Englund