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Andy
Andy

Reputation: 2749

ASP.NET Configurable Web Service

I have a web service reference in a ASP.NET 2.0 web site project. I'd like to be able to switch between staging and production versions of the service without having to change my code.

However, I'm not seeing how to do that in a clean way. I know that I can change web.config to point to some other service URL, but then isn't my code still hard-coded to one reference or the other?

I saw this post, but how do you edit the proxy class? If I "Go to Definition" on the class, it doesn't take me to any class that I can edit, but it's the object browser... Do I need to run the wsdl.exe utility so that it will generate a proxy class for me that I can then edit?

Edit #1: Here's the code I'm using to instantiate and call the service:

Dim service As New Swan.MagellanLeadSheetService()
Dim response As Swan.MagellanLeadSheetResponse = service.Foo(stuffToSendToService)

Edit #2: Since the web.config already has the URL endpoint address in the appSettings area, can I just simply edit that setting when we deploy to Production to point to the production URL? Is it that simple? I was worried about the potential for breaking changes between the proxy classes of Staging vs. Production, but those should be resolved prior to deploying any changes to Production I think.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1666

Answers (2)

Mateus Schneiders
Mateus Schneiders

Reputation: 4903

The following article explains how you can make the Web Service Reference dynamic by changing the reference properties, adding a key to the web.config file and referencing this key on the application code:

Article Link

Basically you will have 2 versions of web.config file, production and staging with different URLs defined. While the code will point to a unique location.

UPDATE:

Now, before the following line, you have to alter the service.URL according to what stands in the web.config.

Dim response As Swan.MagellanLeadSheetResponse = service.Foo(stuffToSendToService)

Upvotes: 2

Erwin
Erwin

Reputation: 4817

First of all here is some info how to add a web reference to your project:

How to: Add and Remove Web References

Then instance of your webservice class (the proxy class that derives from SoapHttpClientProtocol) has to have an property called url, with that property you can swith at runtime to your asmx from staging or production.

CountryService service = new CountryService();
service.Url = "http://foo/bar.asmx";

More info: WebClientProtocol.Url Property

Upvotes: 1

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