Question

Is there a way to read the web service methods dynamically using a program? I have a windows forms app that should be able to read the list of methods and display them. I have added a service reference to my project but need help to read the list of web methods or operations (WCF).

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Answer:

Here is the piece of code just in case anyone is looking for it.

    MethodInfo[] methods = typeof(MyClass).GetMethods(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);
                if (methods != null && methods.Length > 0)
                {
                    foreach (MethodInfo m in methods)
                    {
                        foreach (object o in m.GetCustomAttributes(false))
                        {
                            // To identify the method
                            if (o.GetType().Name.Equals("SoapDocumentMethodAttribute")) 
                            {
                                // Get Name using m.Name
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }

Answer 1

On your client side, since you already have a web reference type for the web service, you can just use reflection to list all the methods in the proxy client class.