ASP.NET in a Nutshell

Name

ServiceDescription

Synopsis

The ServiceDescription class represents a valid WSDL document, complete with appropriate namespaces, elements and attributes. The elements of the WSDL file are all represented by other, distinct classes in the System.Web.Services.Description namespace, and provided through the properties of the ServiceDescription class. At the top level, a WSDL document contains a series of definitions in a <definitions> element. These definitions define Types, Message, PortType, Binding, and Service elements.

The ServiceDescription class also provides a Read() and Write() method. Both methods are overloaded to allow you serialize information to or from a System.IO.Stream, a System.IO.TextReader, a System.IO.TextWriter, a System.Xml.XmlReader, a System.Xml.XmlWriter, or a string containing a fully qualified path and filename.

There are three ways to create a ServiceDescription object. You can use the New keyword and create one manually, you can use the ServiceDescriptionReflector to create one from a live web service, or you can use the shared Read() method to create one from a WSDL file. For example, you can create a ServiceDescription object with all its fully populated subobjects by using a syntax like MyServiceDesc = ServiceDescription.Read("MyFile.xml").

Public NotInheritable Class ServiceDescription : Inherits DocumentableItem
' Public Constructors
   Public Sub New() 
' Public Shared Fields
   public const Namespace As String       // =http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ ...