Create a soap envelope

Hi,

I am working on integrating with parcelforce and was given a wsdl file. When I have integrated this into my visual studio solution I am unable to see any methods for calling the required functions.

I am thinking of manually trying to create a soap as I have used a tool called SoapUI and this works very well. I am trying to test if this would work by saving the xml request in a text file and trying to post it but without much luck.

When ever I have done any web service work before I have been able to reference the service directly and it works calling the methods in the service.


I have been trying the following as I am running out of ideas. I have attached the .wsdl file if anyone has a better idea how to integrate.

   Dim objHTTPReq As HttpWebRequest
            Dim objHTTPRes As HttpWebResponse


            objHTTPReq = CType(WebRequest.CreateDefault(New System.Uri("http://Expresslink-test.parcelforce.net/ws HTTP/1.1")), HttpWebRequest)
            objHTTPReq.ContentType = "text/xml; charset=""utf-8"""
            objHTTPReq.Headers.Add("soapaction", "createShipment")
            objHTTPReq.Method = "POST"

            objHTTPReq.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("test", "test")
            Dim DataString As StringBuilder = New StringBuilder


            '*********************************************************************************************************************************
            Dim s As String = ""
            s = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("E:\CreateShip.txt")
           
            '*********************************************************************************************************************************
            Dim Postdata() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(s)
            objHTTPReq.ContentLength = Postdata.Length

            Dim tempStream As Stream = objHTTPReq.GetRequestStream()
            tempStream.Write(Postdata, 0, Postdata.Length)
            tempStream.Close()


            Dim stream As Stream = objHTTPReq.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()
            Dim reader As New StreamReader(stream)
            Dim response As String = String.Empty

Best regards,

Ross