Question

My customer gave me a .wsdl file to access their webservices. Using VS2008 I can create a project, but I don’t know how to use the .wsdl file in it.

Answer 1

You don’t invoke WSDL file, you add service reference from the file.

To add reference, right click on the project, select Add Service Reference. Paste path to your wsdl file and hit Go.

If you want to use legacy Web Service client, select Add Web Reference and paste path to the wsdl file from there.

I recommend to use WCF (Add Service Reference option).

To use the service reference add code like this:

var serviceClient = new ServiceReferenceName.MyClassClient();
serviceClient.DoSomething();

You also need to update config file with the server URL that you customer should provide you with:

<client>
  <endpoint address="http://UrlFromYourCustomerHere"
            binding="basicHttpBinding"
            bindingConfiguration="xxx"
            contract="MyServiceReference.xxx"
            name="xxx/>
</client>