How to create web service (server & Client) in Visual Studio 2012?

Question

How to create web service (server & Client) in Visual Studio 2012? like being done before 2012 as http://www.tutorialspoint.com/asp.net/asp.net_web_services.htm

Answer 1

When creating a New Project, under the language of your choice, select Web and then change to .NET Framework 3.5 and you will get the option of creating an ASP.NET WEB Service Application.

Answer 2

WCF is a newer technology that is a viable alternative in many instances. ASP is great and works well, but I personally prefer WCF. And you can do it in .Net 4.5.

Create a new project. Right-Click on the project in solution explorer, select "Add Service Reference"

Create a textbox and button in the new application. Below is my click event for the button:

private void btnGo_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ServiceReference1.Service1Client testClient = new ServiceReference1.Service1Client();
        //Add error handling, null checks, etc...
        int iValue = int.Parse(txtInput.Text);
        string sResult = testClient.GetData(iValue).ToString();
        MessageBox.Show(sResult);
    }

And you're done.

Answer 3

--- create a ws server vs2012 upd 3

1. new project

2. choose .net framework 3.5

3. asp.net web service application

4. right click on the project root

5. choose add service reference

6. choose wsdl

--- how can I create a ws client from a wsdl file?

I´ve a ws server Axis2 under tomcat 7 and I want to test the compatibility

Answer 4

1. Create a new empty Asp.NET Web Application.
2. Solution Explorer right click on the project root.
3. Choose the menu item Add-> Web Service