Do a Web Reference via Code

[tdtomlins]

Any suggestions on on to add a reference to a clients machine to a web service (Web Reference) by code. I'm experimenting with writting a client front end with a web location on the database side. I almost have it done but I will need to have the user select the location of the "Web Reference" for my code to reference the corret web Service.

Any suggestions. I havn't een been able to self reference a DLL via .NET yet.

When I find It I'll Post the answer.

Thanks
Tomlins

 

[tdtomlins]

Once I found the answer it was easy when you Reference your Web services change it to Dynamic and don't use LocalHost change it to a normal URL.

In code you reference your Web Reference normally like Public ws as NEW WebRef.Service()

To change the reference location you just type in
ws.URL = "Your URL" & "/Service1.asmx"

That's it I havn't figured out a quick way to check the connection without doing the following (which is a timeout routine)

Public Function CheckWSConnection() as boolen
Dim ws as new WebRef.Service()
'The default timeout is 60 sec.
'You can change this by doing ws.timeout = 30 'refers to 30 sec. I wasn't able to get this to change.

Dim strTemp As String
Try
strTemp = ws.ServerTime.ToString
'Obtained data from the Web Service
return True
Catch
'Couldn't get Connection
return False
End Try

End function

Hope this information save someone some time.
Tomlins