Using reflection to call an ASP.NET web service

Question

Say I have an ASMX web service, MyService. The service has a method, MyMethod. I could execute MyMethod on the server side as follows:

MyService service = new          


        

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this would be the best way to go about it. The most obvious way to me, would be to make an HTTP Request, and call the webservice using an actual HTTP GET or POST. Using your method, I'm not entirely sure how you'd set up the data you are sending to the web service. I've added some sample code in VB.Net

Dim HTTPRequest As HttpWebRequest
Dim HTTPResponse As HttpWebResponse
Dim ResponseReader As StreamReader
Dim URL AS String
Dim ResponseText As String

URL = "http://www.example.com/MyWebSerivce/MyMethod?arg1=A&arg2=B"

HTTPRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(URL)
HTTPRequest.Method = "GET"

HTTPResponse = HTTPRequest.GetResponse()

ResponseReader = New StreamReader(HTTPResponse.GetResponseStream())
ResponseText = ResponseReader.ReadToEnd()