Question

We’ve requested a company to write a webservice that we can use to get some information.They have sent us WSDL and XSD files. Could you please tell me how I can use these files to query data?
I can do it easily if I have a link to a webservice. I just provide the link and Visual Studio generates web reference for me. After that I can use that reference just like a normal class. In this case I have no link. Just above mentioned files. Thank you.

Answer 1

You can create a proxy (add service reference in visual studio) from a wsdl file. You can read about svcutil at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa347733.aspx, but VS2010 allow you to put a wsdl file on adress when adding service reference.