dotnet web services enhancements: I am creating a windows service that will communicate with several
different vendors. I plan to be able to pass the url for the vendor
to the windows service as an xml request. So since im not going to
have access to the URL before that I wont be able to create a web
reference from within the dev envirnoment. what is the best way to
connect with a web service using WSE2.0 or 3.0 with out the use of web
refences?

Personally I don't normally use web references anyway. you can use the
wsdl.exe tool that comes with the framework to generate the class that you
need, i think theres even an option to set for automatically retrieving the
url from a config file rather than having it hardcoded.

Perhaps quicker than using wsdl.exe might be to add the web reference and
then view the hidden files under the reference. There should be a code file
under there with all method stubs in it. You can move that code into your
project and then delete the web reference. You may then one to alter the
constructor on the class to take in the url of the service.

Andrew

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