Question

I have managed to read in a saved .csv file on my hard disc and get the data to poputlate a data table. I now want to take that data and put it into XML format, then send the XML to a web service. How can I do this?

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

XLinq is excellent for putting the data into XML. If you can use an up to date .NET framework I highly recommend it.

There’s some info to get started with here (for example)
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mahesh/xLinkDoc06202007130827PM/xLinkDoc.aspx

As for sending that XML to a web service, perhaps you should be calling the web service via a client automatically generated using the Visual Studio ServiceReference tool.

You may or may not need to send XML to that — in many cases services are object-based (i.e. you’d not need XLinq, provided you can parse the CSV into the correct objects.)

/EDIT:

Rough example for calling webservices using WCF:

using(var client = new ServiceReference1.ThirdPartyServiceClient())
{
    client.SendSomething("123", "hello");
    string output = client.GetSomething();
    Console.WriteLine(output);
}