Creating a SOAP request through wsdl

Hello Experts!
I'm a beginner at using web services (started yesterday).

I have a ASP.Net project with a basic website that has some options to select and then calls a web service to get results. I also added a web service class to that project. The basic web service looks like:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Services;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace testing
{
    [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
    public class webservice1 : System.Web.Services.WebService
    {
        [WebMethod(Description="Testing")]
        public string HelloWorld()
        {
            return "Hello World";
        }
    }
}

I tested this code on the localhost and it works, as you all would probably know.

When I try using the wsdl to generate the proxy code from the command line, it creates the file but there is nothing in it other then the basic comment.

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <auto-generated>
//     This code was generated by a tool.
//     Runtime Version:2.0.50727.1433
//
//     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
//     the code is regenerated.
// </auto-generated>
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

//
// This source code was auto-generated by wsdl, Version=2.0.50727.1432.
//

Nothing else shows up, I figured that since its a basic function call without doing any real work that nothing was generated.

What I'm trying to do is make a SOAP request to a web service on another website and store the xml response in the proper variables. I need some clearing up in this matter, searched around for a while looking for some code snippet that would show me how to send a request to a web service but could not find anything that would suit my needs or I just did not understand what was going on.

Thanks for any help :)
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