Question

I’m integrating CIM into an MVC3 app. I’ve added a service reference using the development url and coded the following:

public long x()
{
    var u = this.User.Identity as IClaimsIdentity;
    var id = u.Claims.First(x => x.ClaimType == ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier);

    AuthorizeNet.CustomerProfileType cust = new AuthorizeNet.CustomerProfileType();
    cust.merchantCustomerId = id.Value;

    AuthorizeNet.MerchantAuthenticationType merch = new AuthorizeNet.MerchantAuthenticationType();
    merch.name = "8aFRk4663XMd";
    merch.transactionKey = "4MS675e62fQEdUXN";
    AuthorizeNet.ServiceSoap svc = new AuthorizeNet.ServiceSoap();
    AuthorizeNet.CreateCustomerProfileResponseType response = svc.CreateCustomerProfile(
        merch, cust, AuthorizeNet.ValidationModeEnum.none
    );
    return response.customerProfileId;
}

but, of course, it doesn’t work because one cannot instantiate an interface like that (.ServiceSoap is an interface). The sample code makes a reference to a .Service – but that doesn’t exist AFAICT.

so how is this supposed to work?

TIA – e!

p.s. I did find an old posting with precisely my problem, but alas, no solution

Answer 1

well… at least for now the answer seems to be: don’t generate a Service Reference but a Web Reference (you can do it by clicking on the Advanced button of the Service Reference dialogue).

so eeky.