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Chapter 13, Enhancing Visual Studio

#99 Generate Web Services Code

HACK

/// <remarks/>

[System.Web.Services.WebServiceBindingAttribute(

Name="UserValidationSoap",

Namespace="http://namespaces.infozerk.com/")]

[System.Web.Services.WebServiceAttribute(

Namespace="http://namespaces.infozerk.com/")]

public class UserValidationImpl : UserValidation

{

/// <remarks/>

[System.Web.Services.WebMethodAttribute( )]

[System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("

http:/namespaces.infozerk.com/ValidateUser",

RequestNamespace="http://namespaces.infozerk.com/",

ResponseNamespace="http://namespaces.infozerk.com/",

Use=System.Web.Services.Description.SoapBindingUse.Literal,

ParameterStyle=

System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)]

public override bool ValidateUser(int userID)

{

return new bool( );

}

}

}

Notice that the tool simply adds a stub return into the method—in this

example, it will return a new

bool value. From here, your job would be to

implement this Web Service by writing the contents of this method, doing

the actual work of determining whether this is a valid user.

Generate Client-Side Proxies

The other way that Visual Studio makes working with Web Services easy is

the ability to add a web reference to a Web Service. After adding a web refer-

ence, you can then access that Web Service just as if it were a local class in

your project, due to Visual Studio generating ...