Consuming a Web Service
Consuming a Web Service is easy. Visual Studio automates the process of querying a Web Service to discover the public methods, the arguments that they take, and the data that they return. Visual Studio queries Web Services, and then creates a class, which you can easily use in your applications.
To create a reference to a Web Service in a Web application, go to the Solution Explorer window and right-click on the name of the application. A pop-up menu appears. Select Add Web Reference from the pop-up menu. A dialog box entitled Add Web Reference appears. In the address field, type the address of the Web Service. For instance, if you have a Web Service that is located on a server somewhere, you type in the name of the domain, ...
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