Question

What am I missing here? In the following webpage, it’s explained how to write a SOAP extension class:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc188761.aspx

In the proposed extension class, which begins:

public class XmlStreamSoapExtension : SoapExtension

… only ChainStream and ProcessMessage are implemented. However, if I do something similar and try to build, I get build errors that 3 abstract methods:

GetInitializer(Type serviceType)  
GetInitializer(LogicalMethodInfo methodInfo, SoapExtensionAttribute attribute)
Initialize(object initializer)

… have not been implemented. Have they just been omitted for brevity, or am I missing something here that allows you not to have to implement them?

Answer 1

if you notice in the example code, the line

  ... // no-op operations omitted for simplicity

says that they have intentionally omitted these methods (for simplicity).