Referring a web service in .NET 4.0

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Hello All,

I have developing an application by my own and stuck in a concept. Let me explain the whole scenario that will help you understand exactly what I want.

I have two projects in a solution. One of them is a web service and another one is a simple web application. The web application need to refer the web service. For that, I have to add the web service as the reference in my web application.
Now, I cannot be able to understand that if I simply add the service as the reference, then how the web application is going to access that?

Can anybody help me out this whole thing step by step? Please guys, I need help

Thanks.

Posted 2-Aug-15 2:57am

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DamithSL 2-Aug-15 9:08am

is it working after you add service reference?

Member 11072126 2-Aug-15 14:02pm

Thank you for the reply. Actually, I need to host the service separately and the asp.net application separately. So, while developing, how to test them? Do I need to host both of them in IIS and then to refer the service in the asp.net application?
If that so, then while deployment how do I change the service reference url? Because, I am going to deploy the dll for both of them.

DamithSL 2-Aug-15 14:10pm

while developing you ca run both projects at ones, no need to deploy in IIS, google for "visual studio multiple startup projects" you will find how to run both service and web project at one in VS
when you deploy, you can first deploy the web service in iis and add reference to that deployed service from your web application by adding service reference. if there is no change in service which you locally running and hosted in iis you can even change the web service url in the web config file in your web application

Member 11072126 3-Aug-15 5:44am

Thank you. It helped me a lot. I understood the flow now.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 2-Aug-15 16:30pm

As long as you call the web service from jQuery (from the client) you need no reference on the server side whatsoever...
The best approach - IMHO - is to open two VS instances one for the service and one for the side...

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 2-Aug-15 9:11am

Do you want to access that web service from the code behind or from the client side?

Member 11072126 2-Aug-15 14:03pm

Actually, I will be calling through jquery ajax.
I need to host the service separately and the asp.net application separately. So, while developing, how to test them? Do I need to host both of them in IIS and then to refer the service in the asp.net application?
If that so, then while deployment how do I change the service reference url? Because, I am going to deploy the dll for both of them.

DamithSL 2-Aug-15 15:38pm

if it is jquery ajax, how you build dll?

Member 11072126 3-Aug-15 5:48am

My mistake. Now, I understood the whole scenario and flow how it should work.

Member 11072126 3-Aug-15 5:49am

Thans to all of you for the support.

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Complete Tutorial[^]

Posted 2-Aug-15 3:52am

sasanka sekhar panda

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Member 11072126 2-Aug-15 14:00pm

Thank you for the reply. Actually, I need to host the service separately and the asp.net application separately. So, while developing, how to test them? Do I need to host both of them in IIS and then to refer the service in the asp.net application?
If that so, then while deployment how do I change the service reference url? Because, I am going to deploy the dll for both of them.

sasanka sekhar panda 3-Aug-15 0:03am

There is no need to host the service in the same iis or in the same server for testing.
..First test your web service completely..Then add the reference to your asp.net app. If your web service url changes then update your service reference in asp.net app simple..

Member 11072126 3-Aug-15 5:47am

Ok. Thank you.

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-02T03:40:00

If web service framework is WCF and web application is ASP.NET, then I already have produced an article for that. Creating a Web Service to be consumed by connected Devices via Internet[^]

Let me tell you how that was done, (I would start after "This is up for the web service, let us now write the client") the web service to reference needs to be running. In my case it was hosted in a console project, which was kept running and then I selected Add Service Reference. That references it. Once that has been done, you can manage the web application to work as a client for that web service. As a client, your web application would be able to send requests to the server.

I would recommend that you read the article I provided, or at the best. You try to learn how WCF handles requests from their clients. Having a deep knowledge of how things work is the key to building a framework.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733133(v=vs.110).aspx[^]
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms734691(v=vs.110).aspx[^]

Read this as a very quick and short documentation: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386386.aspx[^]