Create web service proxy in Visual Studio from a WSDL file

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My application needs to talk to a web service that hasn t got an online WSDL definition  The developers however supplied me with a WSDL file   With a public WSDL Visual Studio can generate this code for me using the Service Reference wizard  But it doesn t seem to work without a public WSDL   How do I generate the code for talking to this web service using this WSDL file

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Using WSDL exe didn t work for me  gave me an error about a missing type   but I was able to right-click on my project in VS and select  Add Service Reference   I entered the path to the wsdl file in the Address field and hit  Go   That seemed to be able to find all the proper types and added the classes directly to my project

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Since the true Binding URL for the web service is located in the file  you could do these simple steps from your local machine   1  Save the file to your local computer for example    C  Documents and Settings  user  Desktop Webservice1 asmx   2  In Visual Studio Right Click on your project   Choose Add Web Reference  A dialog will open     3  In the URL Box Copy the local file location above C  Documents and Settings user  Desktop Webservice1 asmx  Click Next  4  Now you will see the functions appear  choose your name for the reference  Click add reference  5  You are done  you can start using it as a namespace in your application don t worry that you used a local file  because anyway the true URL for the service is located in the file at the Binding section

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Try using WSDL exe and then including the generated file   cs  into your project   Fire up the Visual Studio Command prompt  under visual studio tools in the start menu  then type   gt wsdl exe  path To Your WSDL File    That ll spit out a file  which you copy move and include in your project  That file contains a class which is a proxy to your sevice  Fire up an instance of that class  and it ll have a URL property you can set on the fly  and a bunch of methods that you can call  It ll also generate classes for all any complex objects passed across the service interface

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There s a Microsoft Doc for creating your WCF proxy from the command line     You can find your local copy of wsdl exe in a location similar to this  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft SDKs Windows v10 0A bin NETFX 4 6 1 Tools  Learn more here   In the end your Command should look similar to this    C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft SDKs Windows v10 0A bin NETFX 4 6 1 Tools wsdl exe    language CS  n  My Namespace  https   www example com service wsdl

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Try the WSDL To Proxy class tool shipped with the  NET Framework SDK   I ve never used it before  but it certainly looks like what you need

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save the file on your disk and then use the following as URL    file   your path your file wsdl

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On the side note  if you have all of the files locally  not only wsdl file but also xsd files  you can invoke wsdl exe in that manner   wsdl exe  path to your wsdl file   paths to xsd files imported by wsdl    That way wsdl exe can resolve all dependecies locally and correctly generates proxy class   Maybe it will save somebody some time - it solves  missing type  error when service is not avaliable online

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