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Jeremy Frank
Jeremy Frank

Reputation: 763

Share a web service among projects

In one Visual Studio solution, I have several projects. A couple of them access a certain web service. How can I add a service reference once, and have it used by both projects? I do not want to create an extra assembly for the sole purpose of providing access to the web service.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 202

Answers (3)

ChrisLively
ChrisLively

Reputation: 88092

The service reference setup is actually stored in the project file; so, this isn't really viable and it's not any different from both projects referencing a common assembly.

The only "option" I can think of is if project B has a reference to Project A and Project A has the web reference to your web service, then B can call A which calls the Web Service.... But that only serves to hide your dependency.

This doesn't exactly sound like a problem worth solving. Especially if the two projects can be deployed independently.

Upvotes: 0

Achilles
Achilles

Reputation: 11319

You have to add the reference to the service in each project that references the project. When the reference is set a service proxy class is auto-generated that represents the web service in the project that references it.

Upvotes: 1

Jason Miesionczek
Jason Miesionczek

Reputation: 14448

Without creating a special project just for the web service, i don't think that is possible. You would need to add a service reference for each project that needs direct access to the service.

Upvotes: 2

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