We want to maintain 3 webservices for the different steps of deployment, but how do we define in our application which service to use? Do we just maintain 3 web references and ifdef the uses of them somehow?
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We want to maintain 3 webservices for the different steps of deployment, but how do we define in our application which service to use? Do we just maintain 3 web references and ifdef the uses of them somehow?
As others have mentioned you’ll want to stash this information in a config file. In fact, I’d suggest using a different configuration file for each environment. This will address the inevitable problem of having multiple settings for each environment, e.g. you might have separate settings for the web service URL and web service port or have some extra settings to deal with https/security.
All that said, make sure you address these potential issues:
If the web service does anything particularly essential to the application you might want to marry the application to web services in each environment (i.e. have a version of your application in each environment). Certainly, any changes to the interface are easier when you do it this way.
Make sure it’s obvious to someone which version of the web service you are speaking with.