Question

Say I have an ASMX web service, MyService. The service has a method, MyMethod. I could execute MyMethod on the server side as follows:

MyService service = new MyService(); service.MyMethod(); 

I need to do similar, with service and method not known until runtime.

I’m assuming that reflection is the way to go about that. Unfortunately, I’m having a hard time making it work. When I execute this code:

Type.GetType('MyService', true); 

It throws this error:

Could not load type ‘MyService’ from assembly ‘App_Web__ktsp_r0, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I’m not sure if this would be the best way to go about it. The most obvious way to me, would be to make an HTTP Request, and call the webservice using an actual HTTP GET or POST. Using your method, I’m not entirely sure how you’d set up the data you are sending to the web service. I’ve added some sample code in VB.Net

Dim HTTPRequest As HttpWebRequest Dim HTTPResponse As HttpWebResponse Dim ResponseReader As StreamReader Dim URL AS String Dim ResponseText As String  URL = 'http://www.example.com/MyWebSerivce/MyMethod?arg1=A&arg2=B'  HTTPRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(URL) HTTPRequest.Method = 'GET'  HTTPResponse = HTTPRequest.GetResponse()  ResponseReader = New StreamReader(HTTPResponse.GetResponseStream()) ResponseText = ResponseReader.ReadToEnd()