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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 417

Types not showing up for service reference

I'm integrating one of our apps with a third-party provider's web service. I've added the service reference, but when I go to dimension a var as one of their types, the types aren't showing up for me in Intellisense.

I'm using VB.NET/VS 2008 on Windows 7 and a 2.0 Framework web site running on local IIS. I have imported System.Web and System.Web.Service in my codebehind. I also made sure to check the "Always generate message contracts" checkbox.

Anyone have an idea what I need to do to get the types to show up?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 5035

Answers (2)

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 417

Well, I finally found the solution. First off, I had to update my code base from 2.0 to 3.5 just to get the "Add Service Reference" option to even show up in VS 2008 or 2010. Once I did that I noticed that the svcinfo files were essentially empty (having only closing tags) and no disco file was being created.

I found an article online with a Windows Phone 7 developer reporting the same problem. There was a recommendation there to uncheck the option "Reuse types in referenced assemblies" on the Advanced page of the Add Service Reference dialog. Once I did that everything worked like a charm.

Hopefully this info will benefit others at some point.

SteveDog, thanks for all the ideas and help!

Upvotes: 8

Steven Doggart
Steven Doggart

Reputation: 43743

You need to import the namespace generated by the web service reference. For instance, if your client project's namespace is MyClient and your web reference is called MyWebReference, you'd need to import:

Imports MyClient.MyWebReference

Upvotes: 0

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