How do i reference an ASMX web service in Visual Studio 2008 project?
If I right click the Web References folder in my project, I get a nice dialog window where I type in my path to the asmx web service.
I type in the full URI: http://www.thewebserviceho
It searches and searches indefinitely.
If I type it into a browser, the typical web service shows up nicely with all the methods, so the service works just fine.
Is it no longer possible to connect to asmx services any more with a VS2008 application?
I have a funny feeling it is trying to look for a .svc extension - is there any way to force VS2008 to create an asmx web reference?
(note: not using WCF or any of that newer - and incredibly buggy- MS technology as it could take years to convert existing apps - I have days to figure this out)
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There is no advanced button, I get the typical tabbed pages [.Net], [Com], [Projects], [Browse],[Recent].
This is a winforms project, not a web project - why that option is not there.
I do have an option to add a Web Reference, but, like I stated above, it never finds any references to ASMX files, even if the complete URI is typed in.
unfortunately, like i said, this is not a WCF web service, but a SOAP 1.1 web service I am trying to connect to. The problem is with Visual Studio's "Add Web Reference" dialog box (looks like a bug in SP1).
If you point it to say: http://www.xignite.com/xGl
nothing happens - nada! it grinds away forever and never "discovers" the services.
VS2005 finds web services every time, to there is either a bug in VS2008, or MS no longer supports non-WCF web services.
Please see the attached screen capture. I've turned the firewall off to eliminate that as a problem.
Bug in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Web Reference dialog
If you can't see "add service reference" I suppose your target framework is .NET 2.0 (changing to 3.5 you will see add service reference, but I think you need .Net 2.0)
I've tried to add a reference to asmx ws and seems ok.
try for exaple a ws from http://www.webservicex.net
opening http://www.xignite.com/xGl
i've read support page of that web site and you have to call the web service throgh:
http://www.xignite.
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by: paololabePosted on 2009-08-19 at 00:49:26ID: 25130361
Have you tried this ?
http://www.techtoolblog.c