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Asked: 2026-06-18T02:30:13+00:00

Here is my current situation. I had to break standards for how to do

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Here is my current situation. I had to break standards for how to do web services calls. We had 60+ WSDLs to connect to and the name changed based on a parameter. I created the web service call dynamically using a WebClient and built the envelope manually (it was decided to do this instead of adding each web service by upper management). I get a string response back that has the valid XML that matches the XSD. I’m trying to figure out how to create a class to reference the fields dynamically instead of a class per WSDL (build a class based on the XSD being used). Here is what I’m doing:

public string results;

using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
    string soapENV = @"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
    var payload = @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?>" +
                   "<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV='" + soapENV + "'>" +
                     "<SOAP-ENV:Header/>" + 
                       "<SOAP-ENV:Body>" + 
                         "<" + myParams.requestName + " xmlns='" +    
                             myParams.requestNamespace + "'>" +
                           "<MtvnSvcVer>1.0</MtvnSvcVer>" + 
                           "<MsgUUID>" + UUID + "</MsgUUID>" + 
                           "<PrcsParms>" + 
                           "<SrcID>" + currentVendorID + "</SrcID>" + 
                           "</PrcsParms>"
                           ................
                       "</SOAP-ENV:Body>" + 
                     "</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>";
   this.results = client.UploadString  (URL, payload);
}

For the sake of saving time and space I took out some of the XML tags. The XSD response has the same values for XML tags as above. I then call this to be executed as follows:

string results = connectwareService.InvokeConnectWare();

The results returned look like this:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soapenv:Body>        
    <DPNmeAddrInqMtvnSvcRes  xmlns="mtvnCWDPNmeAddrInqSvcRes"> 
     <MtvnSvcVer>1.0</MtvnSvcVer>
     <MsgUUID>DATA HERE</MsgUUID>           
      <Svc>
       <SvcParms>
         <ApplID>DATA HERE</ApplID>
         <SvcID>DATA HERE</SvcID>
         <SvcVer>1.0</SvcVer>
         <RqstUUID>DATA HERE</RqstUUID>
       </SvcParms>
       <MsgData>
       <DPNmeAddrInqResData xmlns="mtvnCWDPNmeAddrInqResData">
         <E20007>DATA HERE</E20007>
        ........    
   </soapenv:Body> 
</soapenv:Envelope>

Is there a way in the code to do this? I keep seeing peopele refer to using xsd.exe. Can that be executed in code behind? I was thinking that I could read through and populate a generic class with the tag name as a name and the data as a value as last resort but there has to be a way to generate this on the fly in the code. I guess another way I could do it is read all 60+ wsdls and run xsd.exe to build the classes needed?

Also, Just some FYI – I’m converting old Cold Fusion code to C# and I’m trying to figure out how to replace its “ConvertXmlToStruct” method. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    xsd.exe is only run once to build a class file that represents the objects defined in the XSD. You then use an XmlSerializer class to actually convert (aka deserialize) the XML to the c# class.

    There are a lot of links out there talking about deserializing XML in C#:

    How to use xsd in c#?

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950721.aspx

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