Question

given a url that references an asmx how would i go about displaying all of their method names?
if assembly=”http://…/something/something.asmx” and i was trying to display the method names of that service what should i do now that i have gotten myself this far? i cant seem to find a solution among the hundreds of examples ive looked at

   public TestReflection(string assembly)
    {
        Assembly testAssembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(assembly);
        Type sType = testAssembly.GetType();

        MethodInfo[] methodInfos = typeof(Object).GetMethods();
        foreach (MethodInfo methodInfo in methodInfos)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(methodInfo.Name);
        }
    }

Answer 1

so i figured out how to get what i wanted it goes something like this

[SecurityPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.Demand, Unrestricted = true)]
internal static void LoadWebService(string webServiceAsmxUrl)
{
    ParseUrl(webServiceAsmxUrl);
    System.Net.WebClient client = new System.Net.WebClient();
    // Connect To the web service
    System.IO.Stream stream = client.OpenRead(webServiceAsmxUrl + "?wsdl");
    // Now read the WSDL file describing a service.
    ServiceDescription description = ServiceDescription.Read(stream);
    ///// LOAD THE DOM /////////
    // Initialize a service description importer.
    ServiceDescriptionImporter importer = new ServiceDescriptionImporter();
    importer.ProtocolName = "Soap12"; // Use SOAP 1.2.
    importer.AddServiceDescription(description, null, null);
    // Generate a proxy client.
    importer.Style = ServiceDescriptionImportStyle.Client;
    // Generate properties to represent primitive values.
    importer.CodeGenerationOptions = System.Xml.Serialization.CodeGenerationOptions.GenerateProperties;
    // Initialize a Code-DOM tree into which we will import the service.
    CodeNamespace nmspace = new CodeNamespace();
    CodeCompileUnit unit1 = new CodeCompileUnit();
    unit1.Namespaces.Add(nmspace);
    // Import the service into the Code-DOM tree. This creates proxy code that uses the service.
    ServiceDescriptionImportWarnings warning = importer.Import(nmspace, unit1);
    if (warning == 0) // If zero then we are good to go
    {
        // Generate the proxy code
        CodeDomProvider provider1 = CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider("CSharp");
        // Compile the assembly proxy with the appropriate references
        string[] assemblyReferences = new string[5] { "System.dll", "System.Web.Services.dll", "System.Web.dll", "System.Xml.dll", "System.Data.dll" };
        CompilerParameters parms = new CompilerParameters(assemblyReferences);
        CompilerResults results = provider1.CompileAssemblyFromDom(parms, unit1);
        // Check For Errors
        if (results.Errors.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (CompilerError oops in results.Errors)
            {
                System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("========Compiler error============");
                System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(oops.ErrorText);
            }
            Console.WriteLine("Compile Error Occured calling webservice. Check Debug ouput window.");
        }
        // Finally, add the web service method to our list of methods to test
        //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        object service = results.CompiledAssembly.CreateInstance(serviceName);
        Type types = service.GetType();
        List<MethodInfo> listMethods = types.GetMethods().ToList();
}
}