Question

I have a program that sends data to a web service and stores the data into an XML file. I would like to know if there’s a class or a method that can catch the soap object that traveling to the service and dump it to a text file. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

edit 1:

ok so after going through the topic posted in the comment i edited my web.config file to look like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>

<configSections>
    <sectionGroup name="applicationSettings" type="System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsGroup, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" >
        <section name="XML_New.Properties.Settings" type="System.Configuration.ClientSettingsSection, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
    </sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<appSettings>
<add key="username" value="admin"/>
<add key="password" value="admin"/>
</appSettings>
<connectionStrings/>
<system.diagnostics>
<sources>
  <source name="System.ServiceModel.MessageLogging">
    <listeners>
      <add name="messages"
      type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
      initializeData="c:\logs\messages.svclog" />
    </listeners>
  </source>
</sources>
</system.diagnostics>

<system.serviceModel>
<diagnostics>
  <messageLogging logEntireMessage="true"
logMalformedMessages="true"
logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true"
logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true"
maxMessagesToLog="420">
    <filters>
      <add nodeQuota="10" 
   xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">

/soap:Envelope/soap:Header
      </add>
    </filters>
  </messageLogging>
</diagnostics>
</system.serviceModel>
<system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" >

    </compilation>
<authentication mode="Forms" />
</system.web>
<applicationSettings>
    <XML_New.Properties.Settings>
        <setting name="XML_New_localhost_Service1" serializeAs="String">
            <value>http://localhost:1689/Admin.asmx</value>
        </setting>
    </XML_New.Properties.Settings>
</applicationSettings>
</configuration>

the file should be logged to c:\logs\messages.svclog but for soeme reason it doesnt. anyone have an idea why?

Answer 1

At the asmx service level, you can use soap extensions. Docs and working example here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.services.protocols.soapextension.aspx. You can probably copy-paste that whole thing, change the dump path in GetInitializer, and it might just work for you. +1