Given the following url web service:
http://geoss.compusult.net/wes/serviceManagerCSW/csw?request=GetCapabilities&service=CSW
How would i create the proxy classes for the service?
More information HERE.
EDIT #1:
The hosting service above is implementing an OGC standard (CSW). The schemas for this standard are hosted HERE. And they have some WSDLs HERE. If i was to place the URL to one of those WSDL into visual studio's "add reference/service" i get a list of web operations and will generate a reference. However, that will not work because it does not know about the true hosting provider. So i'm not quite sure what to do.
Edit #2:
This is what it generated:
EDIT #3:
Following John Saunders's comment to check for erors, i got the following:
Custom tool error: Failed to generate code for the service reference 'ServiceReference1'. Please check other error and warning messages for details. D:\temp\WebApplication2\WebApplication2\Service References\ServiceReference1\Reference.svcmap 1 1 WebApplication2
So i checked the warnings and i saw a few warnings similar to this:
Warning 1 Custom tool warning: Cannot import wsdl:portType Detail: An exception was thrown while running a WSDL import extension: System.ServiceModel.Description.XmlSerializerMessageContractImporter Error: Schema with target namespace 'http://www.opengis.net/cat/csw/2.0.2' could not be found. XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace='http://www.opengis.net/cat/csw/2.0.2/requests']/wsdl:portType[@name='csw'] D:\temp\WebApplication2\WebApplication2\Service References\ServiceReference1\Reference.svcmap 1 1 WebApplication2
And these are the same types of warnings i've been getting when doing anything with with these schemas in .NET. Aren't schemas supposed to work with any language? Here are some example of my heart ache with .NET and these schemas: HERE HERE HERE
So i'm not sure whether to blame the schemas or .NET for not being able to deal with such large schemas.
Event though Marc and Basiclife both provided answers that would have normally worked on "normal" schemas, John is getting the answer because he helped me troubleshoot it when i did not think it was a troubleshooting issue, but rather something i was missing. I should have known with these schemas though i thought creating the client wouldn't be as much of a big deal.
Use the actual WSDLs to generate the service reference. Then, when you open the proxy class, use the constructor overload that includes an EndpointAddress
. That will include the URL of the actual service.
The URL in the WSDL is only a hint.